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From: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root)
Subject: You can't stop progress
23 Jun 1997 02:09:33 -0700 :
Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
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Reply-To: jacob AT jacon DOT remcomp DOT fr
Original-To: rgr AT rio DOT sci DOT ccny DOT cuny DOT edu (Roger Kuhlman)
Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199706230004.UAA15668@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu> from "Roger Kuhlman" at Jun 22, 97 08:04:25 pm
Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> > 
> > I am frequently getting the message:
> > 
> > cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex  
> > 
> 1) if you are using NT, or Win95 you are not going to get much joy with less
> than 64mb real memory, and about another 64mb of swap 

64MB of RAM just to run an autoconf+some make. This is new to me.
I didn't expect to see a message like this in 1997, only in 1999 2000.
A program REQUIRING 64MB of RAM!!!!
I thought that the first program that woould had those requirements would be
a monstruous database/expert system/GUI program. 

NO. It was GNU Make!!!

Congratulations to cygnus for establishing this record! I wonder when
a Hello world program will need 1Gigabyte of RAM to start and some
terabytes of disk to be stored...




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