In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:47:37 +0000
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Fedora on the Final Frontier
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>> | There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora
>
> Go team!
>
> NASA have always edged towards to cooler side of computing. They even
> used to use Amigas:
>
> http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/amiganasa_en.php
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> I bet even a 16MHz A500 is still better than crawling along with Vista.
> Seriously.
>
Memory might be a little constricting today. Amigas might
have on the order of 16 MB; I'd have to look. Contemporary
units are running at 4 GB.
OTOH, it was more capable than DOS units were back then;
one wonders how the heck we ended up with the schlock, when
we could have had preemptively multitasking GUI-capable
computers as early as the late 80's in every home.
I'm not sure we can fully blame Windows for that one. ;-)
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