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In article <415fq1$2na@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, dylanfa@aol.com (Dylan F A)
wrote:

:: So VM is not essential, since all it does is save the need to buy
:: real memory?
:
:I really dislike VM. If I need to run something that my real RAM can't
:handle, more than likely it's already pretty slow/computationally taxing.
:VM just makes things worse.
:
:And VM most definately does not "save the need to buy real memory". It's a
:slow desperate solution. If you need more memory, buy more memory. Your
:fancy processor doesn't help much if you swap continously.

A well implemented VM is a good thing. For one it buys you memory
protection. It also allows you to have manny large applications open at
once. For optimum, cost effective performance, your RAM size should be
probably be large enough to hold commonly accessed parts of the OS and
commonly accessed parts of your largest application. 

While I'm a great fan of Apple, I believe their implementation of VM is
poor. Maybe this is why you have such a low opion of VM. Hopefully, we
will see major VM improvemnts in Copland.

Tom