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

Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:20:43 -0400


On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, John Alvord wrote:

>the programming effort isn't too high. When a system runs fine on low end
>machines it will fly on high end machines. Inefficiences that are masked

Be careful here. One of the reasons that 2.1 does not run as well on
low end machines as 2.0 does is that 2.1 has features which make it
faster on high end machines.

Jim

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