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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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