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|    Chris Ahlstrom to James Boswell    |
|    Re: Speed Up A ???Slowly Deteriorating??    |
|    24 Jan 11 16:23:16    |
      XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy       From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com              James Boswell wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:              >>So, Windows falls on its face under this sort of load, does it? Linux       >>barely even works up a sweat.       >>And Windows crapware sucks up 8GB just for the _required_ apps, eh?       >>Pretty sad.       >       > I'm sorry but I have to interject here, you're responding to hyperbole,       > Windows certainly has its faults, but Windows 7 is perfectly capable of       > operating in 4GB of ram, I don't for a second believe anyone anywhere found       > that they needed 8GB of ram to run basic corporate desktop tasks.              I really liked your biography of Samuel Johnson!              --        Thus, in 1767, in a letter to W.J.Temple, he wrote, "I got myself quite        intoxicated, went to a Bawdy-house and past a whole night in the arms of        a Whore. She indeed was a fine strong spirited Girl, a Whore worthy of        Boswell if Boswell must have a whore"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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