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Subject: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!!
Date: 30 May 1994 06:29:26 GMT
Organization: Math & CS at Aalborg University
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In-reply-to: n9044144@honeydew.cc.wwu.edu's message of 27 May 94 19:54:31 GMT
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>>>>> "Khan" == Khan M Klatt <n9044144@honeydew.cc.wwu.edu> writes:
>> 5 - Real-time (not necessarily fast but able to execute an
>> instruction at a specific time)
Khan> check.
Are you sure? Try doing something remotely real-time over NFS...
>> 10- Price:
Khan> Free- check.
Khan> Price/Performance Ratio= pretty damn close to infinity.
Now how can the Price/Perfomance Ratio be close to infinity,
when the price equals zero? 0/x = 0.
'hagen---Just another humble Linux fan.