What is an Operating System (was Electronics Barn closing)

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 16:52:47 2004

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> freshly compiled LFS 5.1.1 with no services running: 9.2 Meg. My wife's
> Shuttle running standard RedHat 9 & Nautilus for the GUI - a touch over
> 100Meg. It goes to show that enduser linux is sometimes no better now than
> enduser Winders.]]

That may well be the influence of all the 20-something aged programmers
who never had to squeeze a program into 4K of memory (or less).

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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