Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]
David Burrows (snadge@gemcorp.com.au)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:30:12 +1000 (EST)
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Linux should run passably on the lowest common denominator machine for
> > the majority of its userbase. That is an 8Mb 486. If you think everyone
> > can afford 32Mbytes I suggest you pay a visit to a local UK university,
> > pop out into the poor parts of europe or south america.
>
> Memory has gotten insanely cheap lately.
>
> $14 for 16MB SIMM
> $26 for 32MB SIMM
> $127 for 128MB DIMM
Shoot me if I'm wrong.. But throwing money at a problem to hide
inefficient programming sounds like a very Microsoft thing to do. Isn't
this why we're using Linux in the first place?
Dave.
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