Re: Woody on 486 problem

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:50:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us
greybeards play "remember when"!!!

Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!)

Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM?

Remember when Doom ran great on Linux and fvwm, with 16MB RAM and
et4000/W32p video card?

And I suppose when Vista has been out for a while (people wont have any
choice when they buy a new machine, unless they buy one without an OS)
256M or even 512M will be considered old and we'll see questions like
"Will KDE run in 512M?"

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etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
etch goes stable.


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