From: Randy 

Tim Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:35:59 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>
>>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>>news:841qv1lglgi0aov4h9et1spqv8buj5948b{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>
>>>Shit, ghostscript does Postscript _and_ pdf - and is under 4 meg total.
>>
>>My point exactly, what is wrong with the world today?
>>
>>Geo.
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> Because kids today don't know or care about saving system resources because
> they don't _have_ to know or care about saving system resources.  If it
doesn't
> run, just spend $100 on another gigabyte of memory or 250 gig of disk, and
try
> again.
>
> Quake 4 takes over 340 megabytes.
>
> Of MEMORY!  Shit, I didn't get 340Mb of _disk_ until the mid-90s!
>
> 
>
> (Don't mind me.  I turn 50 in 1 hour 54 minutes.  I've got a bottle of
Macallan
> 12-year-old scotch in front of me, and I'm working on seriously damaging it).
>
And to think the Apollo missions were managed by two IBM 360/91s (with a
360/67 as standby)....

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