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Article #2763Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:30
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:30
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scruggs@cis.ohio-state.edu (kevin eugene scruggs) writes: >In article <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> mikemc@macshack.com writes: >|Why would I want to turn off the swap file? That would be stupid ;) It is > 70ns vs 10ms. Exactly (well, 60ns vs 8ms :-). And I prefer unused stuff to have an access time of 8ms and used stuff to have an access time of 60ns, rather than the other way round. I.e. I want dead, unused data to make room in RAM for things that I actually use, like a disk cache. Seems like a good idea to me. Bernie -- ============================================================================== I'm using an experimental version of "nn" to read news. So if anything seems strange about the headers of this mail or post, please inform me. Thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!wombat.hanse.de!root From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Organization: Private uucp site lost in the voids of the black hole Germany is in the Internet Message-ID: <DL3r6o.zJ@wombat.hanse.de> References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com> <4d3m6o$bb6@macshack.com> <4d428mINNe14@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:30:24 GMT