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From: kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga World review about A3000
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Date: 4 May 90 18:48:47 GMT
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   >going to use it all up in the next few years.  I'm waiting for someone to
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   >come along with an actual use for more than 18 or so megabytes, though I
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   Well, I've got this friend who would really like to be able to do really fast
   searches/matches on the entire corpus of Greek and Latin literature....
   :-)
Ever hear of the TLG (Thesauras Linguae Graece) database?  Does just that...


   A Gigabyte?  Cheesh.  I remember when we got a 10 Meg harddisk for my high
   school's computer, and everybody was making jokes about many generations of 
   students it would take to use up all that memory.  Now we can have a gig of
   ram.  I feel like I'm living in a Monty Python skit, where people are saying
   things like "Your computer only has six hundred and forty Kilo-bytes?  My
   computer has (gotta say this in an English accent) a GIGA-BYTE (smirk here)"

Well my computer (CM2) has GOT a gigabyte of RAM, and 50 gigabytes of
hard disk.   And no, it's not enough.  When you're inverting rank
50,000 matrixes, you need a lot. :-)

(problem on the Amiga is that doing any sort of operations on this
much data is bound to be kinda slow)

monty
kosma@alan.decnet.lockheed.com