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From: gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: unix and memory, sigh (was Re: What Happens If You Have > 9 Meg??
Message-ID: <00078@meph.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 01:33:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.002917.21545@lavaca.uh.edu> <10870003@hpfcso.HP.COM> <18613@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <18613@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <10870003@hpfcso.HP.COM> aoe@hpfcso.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes:
>
>>Would it be possible to use those 16Mbit chips ZIP RAM chips in the mother
>>board sockets of an A3000?  Just dream'n I guess ...
>
>What would you do with 64MB on the motherboard, anyway.

A hardware person asks this?  For shame dave!.  Haven't I seen you in
comp.arch, (or maybe it was randall jessup), the newsgroup that has real
people saying things like, "I've only got 256Meg of ram in my Apollo
workstation and I can't do a thing with it.", or someone claiming that the
speed of an intel 486 was barely tolerable to him for editing text?  I insert
8-), but I don't think the original posters did. I've got a silicon graphics
machine, and the editor, emacs is bigger than the entire kernel, it's a pig
and takes forever to start up, and I just want to edit a tiny 1K text file.
8-(.  I end up using "ed" the line editor a lot. 8-)

But seriously, I would think that stuffing Sys Vr4 and X-windows and all
those neat things that you have on the 3000UX and then having a fairly small
memory limit (compared I realize to more expensive workstations), but still
fairly small, may make a bit of a pig's breakfast of it someday.

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"Do memory page swapping to floppies" , I said, "yes we can do that, but you 
haven't lived until you see our machine do swapping over a 1200 Baud modem
line, and keep on ticking."
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