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Re: It's only 16 MB

Roberto Pavan (rpavan@physics.ubc.ca)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:32:06 -0700

At 04:07 PM 8/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Roberto Pavan wrote:
>
>> You can buy 5V DIMMS at Electrosonic in Richmond. They'll cost ya, though.
>
>I remember people used to buy their 16550A UARTs from computer stores
>for $30 when they were $11 at Electro Sonic.

Yeah, well, it's the other way around now, it seems. Someone mentioned tha
5V DIMMS were damned expensive everywhere, so let's not blame Electro Sonic.

>> Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
>> away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
>> managed a software project.
>> --Andrew Tannenbaum, comp.os.minix, 5 Feb 92 23:23:26 GMT
>
>If this is the guy who helped design and implement TSS-11, MINIX, and
>Amoeba, and is the author of Modern Operating Systems (Prentice Hall),
>it's "Tanenbaum."

That would be the guy. I got this from a reprint of a comp.os.minix thread
at KDE.org.

>Man, this P133 with 64 MB of RAM goes like stink! I haven't even
>touched virtual mem yet! Thank you thank you thank you for dropping
>those memory prices.

Wait a few days, and it'll seem slow again.

Your faithful narrator,
Roberto Pavan rpavan@physics.ubc.ca

Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project.
--Andrew Tanenbaum, comp.os.minix, 5 Feb 92 23:23:26 GMT