Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: David Kurtz
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:59

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In article <4d9ui4$e63@macshack.com>, mikemc@macshack.com wrote:

>Like I said, why would I want to turn off my swap file?   Are you tring 
>to tell me that 8M of 70ns ram is better/faster than 8M of 70ns ram PLUS
>16M of 8ms Swap?  I guess you like those out of memory/memory allocation
>errors?  If you are not trying to multi-task, then you may be fine, 
>sometimes.    
>

*Four* megs, let alone eight, are adequate for most Macs to, as you say,
multitask. What kind of computer are you using that *requires* more than
eight MB to be useful?

-- 
David A. Kurtz                   
david@ucla.edu
david@lightside.net                                          http://www.lightside.net/~david/

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 14 Jan 1996 10:59:26 GMT
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