On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 10:38 AM, Tom Legrady wrote:
Ten years ago I worked in an office of 8 developers which used a Sparc 10 with 32 MB ( or maybe 64 MB, I forget ) and 1 GB HD, driving a bunch of NCD Xterminals. We were using vi & emacs and ruunning gcc all day long
Phillip Mills wrote:
I certainly wouldn't be happy doing software development with 64MB on any of my systems, whether Linux, Mac, or MS.
...and I'd been writing code for four years before I saw a *mini* computer with a whole megabyte of main memory. (It tended to bog down when it hit about a dozen concurrent Fortran compiles.) I didn't say it was impossible, just that I wouldn't be happy. :-) ........................ Phillip Mills Multi-platform software development (416) 224-0714 -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml