Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How low can you go? Message-ID: <1374@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 28 Feb 91 09:47:27 GMT References: <1372@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Feb28.043153.8516@utstat.uucp> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 20 In article <1991Feb28.043153.8516@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes: >Why is 12megs a big mistake on a monochrome cube which is used by one >user? Try it and watch what happens (you can artifically lower the amount of memory Mach thinks it has at boot time). When you don't have enough memory, your machine has to page from (and to) disk. When your 15 MIPS 68040 machine is page- thrashing, it's a 0 MIPS machine. If that's your idea of acceptable performance, you can save a bundle by buying a Mac Classic instead. Don't skimp! -=EPS=- -- There's an aftermarket for used NeXT 1MB SIMMs... unless you were foolish enough to order NeXTstation Color with 12MB.