From: "RobertB." 

In article ,
 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.
> >
>
> 
>
> 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.

Ouch.
>
> Of MEMORY!  Shit, I didn't get 340Mb of _disk_ until the mid-90s!

Double Ouch!


> (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).

Been there, done that. It was more fun turning 40, but so it goes.

robert

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