Re: Nitro

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From: Richard Nash
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 14:04

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>In article <dillon.0oq2@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US  
>(Matthew Dillon) writes:
>> 
>>     The main problem with 3.0 is in paging from disk, a faster processor
>>     will not help at all in that area.
>> 
>>                                       -Matt
>> 
>> --
>> 
>>     Matthew Dillon            dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
>>     1005 Apollo Way           uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>>     Incline Village, NV. 89451        ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
>>     USA                       Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
>
>If only it were really that simple!
>
>Jim

But it is true! Most of the perceived 'slowness' about next machines have to
do with disk or network access. Even if the processor was infinitely fast,
executing in zero time, the machine would look and feel almost as slow as
it does today.

Rich

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Richard V. Nash
nash@vi.ri.cmu.edu

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