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From: 7thSon@SLCS.SLB.COM (Chris Garrigues)
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Subject: effects of rumored 16 meg virtual memory threshhold on Sparc lisps
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Date: 27 Jul 90 20:53:00 GMT
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    From: lakin@csli.Stanford.EDU
    Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 12:26 CDT
    
    I'm curious as to responses from users,vendors, proponents and lisp
    others to this depressing note on sun-spots recently:
     
Schlumberger's Austin Systems Center was one of the first groups to
identify this problem.  Needless to say, they aren't very happy about
it since they own a large number of SPARCstations.  The latest word is
that there is supposed to be a kernal patch which will fix the problem,
but this patch hasn't been received yet at this time.

I don't have the data in front of me, but I believe that the figures
indicated that the application under development was slower on a
SPARCstation than it had been on a Sun3.

I don't know much more since I'm somewhat of an outsider on this
particular issue, but I'm sure that someone from ASC will be willing to
comment more on the situation.


Chris Garrigues,
Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science