Re: Nitro

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 19:31

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>In article <3008@news.cerf.net> billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:
>Well I might as well be the first to initiate a useless
>thread about the maybe new, maybe not "nitro" box.
>
>So here we go...
>
>I suspect that you could barely feel the diff in speed
>from 33 to 40Mhz (if at all). I suspect the motivation is
>more marketing glycerin than engineering nitro.
>
>bill romanowski
>vp of taking the garbage out on thursday before the truck gets here
>prairie research

    The main problem with 3.0 is in paging from disk, a faster processor
    will not help at all in that area.

					-Matt

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Subject: Re: Nitro
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