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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was <None>)
Message-ID: <1990Oct20.012517.20775@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 90 01:25:17 GMT
References: <34029@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:

>>Yeah!  I wish that they had that on Intuition!  Hmmm... I don't seem to
>>notice too much of a problem with applications starting up (speedwise
>>that is).  Are you loading off of the magneto-optical?  I'm using
>>a 660, and things are quite snappy.  Also, you might want to go up
>>from the piddly 8 megs that comes standard.  16 gives you enough
>>space to keep paging down, and 32 is just plain great.  Ohhh,

>Oh come now, 32 megs?  What a ridiculous amount of memory.  It takes
>32 megs for a NeXT to run quickly?  I have 4 megs on my 3000 and it's
>quite snappy.  Who has the money to buy 32 megs of memory?  Kinda

  Is your 3000 with 4 megs running Unix?  Does it have demand-paged virtual 
memory?   Please compare apples to apples...  Wait till the A3000UX comes out
and then compare.

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