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Debugging 8GB postscript files? thats awesome  (probably wasnt then :)


On 08/22/2011 12:04 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier<hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>> | its a pair of Sun *Ultrasparc* 10s. 1gb RAM and 2x80GB HD.
>>
>> Those sound quite useable.
> They were pretty spiffy when I arrived here in 2002. Only grizzle from
> Sun die-hards at the time was that the ATA was a bit of a
> processor-hog; in fact, I remember the CD-ROMs being really slow. If I
> absolutely didn't need it, I'd want it for the memories of debugging
> 8GB PostScript jobs in emacs... ;-)
>
> cheers,
>   Stewart
>

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