Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Andrej Presern wrote:
> >
> > Don't get me wrong - I'll make sure it works on an 8MB machine, but I
> > won't consider it a showstopper if it is noticeably slower than 2.0.x on
> > such a machine.
>
> Windows have been there, done that. And people decided they didn't like
> it and went to Linux. History repeats?

Raising the bar has to be done. Windows issn't so much about raising the
bar, as of doing it _badly_ (and excessively, in the case of WinNT).

Just face facts: if you have a machine from 1985, why do you expect to
have an OS from 1998? If you can make do with an older machine, you can
make do with Linux-1.2 or Linux-2.0 (and people _do_).

Linus

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