Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTstep 2.0 interesting features... Message-ID: <59727@brunix.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 90 02:58:55 GMT References: <368@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 23 In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: >In article <368@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >> Why would you want to boot with only 8MB of memory on a 16MB system, >> out of curiosity? > >For testing purposes. Most developers have >8 MB in their NeXTs. >Most users, especially new users with NeXTstations, are going to have >just 8 MB in their systems. It's nice for developers to see the >performance of their applications (or set of applications) on the >"standard" NeXT system configuration. That's not the only reason. As you should no longer open the new systems (i.e. slabs) as you were/are allowed to do with the cubes, you possibly still can use a slab even is some memory went bad until you got a technician to look after the problem. Just shut down some of the memory and you might be lucky... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet