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From: yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 31 May 90 04:44:54 GMT
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In article <640@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:
> We all have to get used to the fact
> that memory is now about $80/MB and swap space is about $10/MB.

And _I/O bandwidth_ is still expensive -- see other discussions in this
newsgroup.  That 1 MB of swap space is going to take a couple of seconds so
swap out, and another couple of seconds to swap back in.

		Norman Yarvin		yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu