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Re: Throwing rocks in silicate-based houses



Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:14, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:49:44PM +0100, Chris Evans wrote:
> [snip]
> > It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon.
> > It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95.
> > Something is wrong here.
> 
> While it "only" takes a 386 (and back in '95, I believe that the
> minimum RAM was still 4MB) to run Linux, that's still quite a 
> lot more than the equivalent of a 3MHz (8 bit) 6502 and 192KB RAM.
> 
> Is something wrong here, also?

If you guys want to argue apples and oranges, please do it off-list. This
is even sillier than defensing Outlook Express.

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... from bad to worse... inflammatory sigs too?

Craig

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