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In article <1316@ames.UUCP>, lamaster@pioneer.arpa (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
>   If a 1 MIP system a few years ago needed 16MBytes of virtual
> and 4 MBytes of physical memory (my own figures), a 100MIP system needs about
> 2GB of virtual and 512 MBytes of physical memory....

That's assuming that MIPS and physical/virtual memory scale linearly.  I
have my doubts about this.

While MIPS (for the sake of argument, let's use the "wise man's definition",
or "Meaningless Index of Processor Speed") and virtual memory size may have
a more or less linear interrelationship, I've noticed more of a logarithmic
relationship between virtual and real memory.

Am I the only person out here who doesn't agree?

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