From: /m 



I understand your context.  I just wanted to add some historical
(hysterical?) colour.


I searched on the word "mantra" in my Canopus folder.

 /m

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:35:49 -0400, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>The "you read it here first" was in reference to my comment that the
>follow-on to Vista will have the "4GB is our mantra" chant.
>
>(But:  *nice* find on the original message.  How'd you do that!?!?!?)
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:45:38 -0400, /m  wrote:
>
>>
>> ===
>> #: 56282 S6/The OS Wars
>> 1   31-Aug-93  16:54:09
>> Sb: #54985-Chicago and Cairo
>> Fm: Thomas Reardon 76040,1014
>> To: Ben Sano 72401,2736
>>
>> Brad S is a technical evangelist, in developer relations.  This is
>> closer to PR than the dev group, where I live.  Chicago will be
>> optimized for 4MB, not 8. 4MB is our mantra.
>>
>> -Thomas Reardon [MS]
>> ===
>>
>>  /m
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:26:20 -0400, "John Beamish"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> And the OS follow-on to Vista:  4gb is our mantra.  (You read it here
>>> first!)
>>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:24:36 -0400, Tim Boyer 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:02:48 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Mike N." 
wrote in message
>>>>> news:kt9md2pb48n69j342gah95kld092nd52vq{at}4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>   I still want to get my own setup of that SUSE
demo - not that I
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> it,
>>>>>> but I just want to play with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> forget about trying it on anything with less than half
a gig of ram..
>>>>> that's
>>>>> a minimum (laughing at the people who bitched that NT
3.1 required
>>>>> 16mb)..
>>>>>
>>>>> Geo.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> '4 meg is our mantra'
>>>>

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