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//From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry
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//Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:52 AM
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//Subject: Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2
serious snipping
Wow, you guys either have really cheap rent or expensive ram!!!
Back then (early 90s) we were paying 80ukp per megabyte. This equates
to about 130usd. My rent at that time was 220ukp (about 350usd) a month
for a single bedroom apartment.
Even today, prices for computer
Well, when I tried it (which was a good few years ago now) Windoze
3.1 was king, Win95 was still a dream project called Chicago, a
college student called Linus Torvalds had just started releasing a
(then very basic) Minix/unix clone on an unsuspecting world, and
my 486 with 8megs of
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
serious snipping
Maybe, but at what price? It cost me (at the time) the equivalent of
over six week's rent just to upgrade the machine from 4mb to 8mb RAM.
Having to pay another three month's worth just to get to a hardware
level that would support the OS was not
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
There never was much support for OS/2. Comparatively few
applications
were ever ported, and (compared to the competition at the time) was
a
real resource hog.
To what are you comparing it, specifically? Boot time was far quicker
than
Windows, IIRC.
