🚀 go-pugleaf

Alex Makarewycz writes
> Obviously some nexters' just aren't programmers!
>   
> 	Having a Ramdisk containing cc or tex would spare my harddisk the  
> torturous reading and writing it goes through when recompiling.  I can't  
> wait to get a copy!

If you have enough memory, frequently invoked programs are cached on more than  
one level already on the NeXT. If you don't have enough memory what are you  
doing with a ram disk ? (No, I refuse to make the virtual memory joke. It is  
quite good, but _very_ old).

Seriously, probably a point can be made for ram disks for certain specialized  
uses. Sun tempfs comes to mind. But transplanted Mac/PC programmers who are  
basing their judgements on their old experiences and lack of the understanding  
of the internals of UNIX and Mach are going to be disappointed.

BTW, AMIGA programmers have been able to keep programs resident without RAM  
disk for many years. Having an operating system (even if it is not quite as  
sophisticated as Mach/BSD 4.3) does help. Apple and Microsoft, take note !

	Carl Edman