Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: NetBSD System Packages (LONG)
To: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Robert V. Baron <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 10/02/1998 08:06:30
Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:

> "Plenitude of disk space, affordability of RAM and cheapness of CPU
> speed are not excuses for shoddy programming or abuse of resources."
Yes.  On the otherhand, let's go back to the big picture.  If there
are a lot of platforms that are disk poor, maybe we want to revise
the system so that you can directly execute compressed binary images.

> 
> Thanks to the kindness of several people (all my hardware was given to
> me, else I'd not have it now), I'm running on:
> 	a SPARCstation IPX;
> 	64MB core;
> 	2 Sun0424s, a Sun0669, a Sun1.0G and a Sun1.3G (disks);
> 	an old Exabyte 8200 and a Sanyo 4x CD-ROM.
> 
> Had I not the friends I have, I'd not have a system at all.  I certainly
> cannot afford to go and willy-nilly replace a SCSI disk when one burns
> out.
> 
> 
> 				--*greywolf;
> --
> Friends don't let friends use Microsoft.