readline bashing (was POSIX bashing)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <1991Apr5.072447.4432 at mtxinu.COM> ed at mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) writes:
> I know that there are a lot of things that legitimately need more
> than 64KB (even the worlds smallest fully-functional Unix kernel -
> the one at Bell Labs research - is larger), but most of the things
> that take more than that do so because they're bloated with excess
> goo, badly coded, or - most likely - both.

Heh. On a DECsystem here running Ultrix 4.1, accton fails with ``not
enough core.'' Not enough core? The machine has 32MB memory which is
nowhere near full, not to mention 64MB or so of virtual memory. What
do the geniuses at DEC tell us? Virtual memory should be at least 4x
real---that's right, 128MB for a computer that rarely uses more than
20MB---on any running machine. Brilliant.

[sigh] I always thought the Apple II's 16K expansion card was a huge
improvement: dozens of extra programs in memory, or even enough room
to run a (gasp) optimizing compiler. Oh, well.

---Dan