From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:51:47 -0500, Randy  wrote:

> 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.
>>  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)....

I'm pretty pissed that there are adults walking around born long after the
last moon mission.

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Gary Wiltshire

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