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In article <david-1401960302090001@s245_7.resnet.ucla.edu>, david@ucla.edu (David Kurtz) writes:
|> 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?
|> 
    Four megs *free* perhaps is adequate but the amount of free ram left after
 7.0-7.5 was loaded would be between 2.5-3 megs which just isn't adequate to 
 load *much* mac software.  Forget about heavyweights like Photoshop.

Shane

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|> David A. Kurtz                   
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