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Re: Speed of 3.0 relative to 2.X

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From: Keith N. Lakeman
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:07
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In article <C07qDD.Hot@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec30.103733.1133@marcon.ka.sub.org> emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org  
>>(Evstathios Marinos) writes:
>>> 
>>> When you set the buffers to values > 255 you will get problems.
>>                                           ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>
>>Like what?
>
>Like your machine crashing all the time for no apparent reason.  I
>have seen a posting by a NeXT engineer (don't remember where,
>though) to this effect. 

I'm running my NeXTstation (32MB RAM) with 256 buffers and not having
any noticable problems.  Is this truely a bad thing to do?

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