Re: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)

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From: Mike Dixon
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:58

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matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:

>In article <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>    Sounds like one huge bandaid to me.... compressed????  Are they out of
>>    their mind?  It's *already* too slow!

>Compare the speed of the '040 in compressing to the speed of a typical hard
>disk.

c'mon guys.  this is yet another rehashing of a totally bogus
discussion based on complete misunderstanding of a third-hand
reporting of a misunderstood remark.  it doesn't make any
sense to use data compression on the swapfile, and next isn't
doing it.
--

                                             .mike.

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