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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by wrycoder on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:09PM (#30188041)
In the olden times, it was Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by mech422 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:59PM (#30188453)
My fav was "Emacs Makes A Computer Slow" ... though, that was 20 years ago :-D
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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by 6502nerdface on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:49PM (#30188834)
And today it's Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists.
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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by dekhn on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:11AM (#30193397)
literally true; my first linux box didn't fly until I upgraded from 4MB to 16, at which point I could run emacs, g++, a shell, and X windows at the same time.
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Re:Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades l... by toast0 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:50PM (#30188371)
Eight megabytes sounds svelte these days.
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