On Wed, April 12, 2017 8:07 am, Alice Wonder wrote:> On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** >> controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> >> > > Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm > always reminded of some TV clip I saw when I was young and can't place > of a bunch of old people complaining : > > "Well we've never done it that way before"To their credit one can say: some older people do realize that they didn't fit into "iPad generation". ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev wrote:> On Wed, April 12, 2017 8:07 am, Alice Wonder wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >>> <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** >>> controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> >> >> Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm >> always reminded of some TV clip I saw when I was young and can't place >> of a bunch of old people complaining : >> >> "Well we've never done it that way before"Of course, to be fair, there may have been a *reason* for not doing it that way before....> > To their credit one can say: some older people do realize that they didn't > fit into "iPad generation". ;-) >I a) actively dislike Apple, and b) I want a *real* keyboard. mark "tease me about my age, and I'll beat you with my cane!"
> > Of course, to be fair, there may have been a *reason* for not doing it > that way before.... >Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my PC here at home is consuming just over 500MB. It seems reasonable that software components built in 1997 will not be fit for purpose in 2017. * According to perfunctory google search: http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-historic-price-of-ram/