Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 91 13:55:09 GMT References: <1991Apr5.034303.14202@engin.umich.edu> Lines: 34 >In article tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: [...] >add the gigabytes they need. How many people can actually afford to allocate >100 MB of hard disk for VM swap space? And who would possibly want to run a >mix of users/applications that might NEED 100 MB of swap? Lawd awmighty it >would be a slllooowwwwwww way to work. Well, if you very occasionally need 130MB of swap space on your Sun workstation because you do image processing it's a good thing. I don't think I needed to buy 130MB of semiconductor memory because of a job I've run twice. Yes, it was somewhat slow, but not too bad because of locality of reference. (It also helps that I have a fileserver model, which can do very fast disk I/O). There are people who would do this kind of work on an Amiga, if they could. Also, you must not program in LISP :-) >But for a single user platform -- even tho' mul;titasking -- VM >and MMU is moslty marketing hype and not a true technical requirement >(IMHO). I use a unix 386 (16MHz) at work and I'm glad to come home to a >"lowly" PC with a keyboard garage that at least doesn;t feel like a waltzing >elephant! That's odd. I used to have a 20MHz 386 at work (running DOS and not UNIX). When I compiled the same code on the 386 as on the Amiga, the 386 was a *lot* faster. Perhaps you also need to look at your hard drive and host adaptor on your 386. I had a WD FASST controller, and a Wren III HD. I think if I had the ability to page, it would have been pretty quick. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |