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From: jjb@hardy.u.washington.edu (Jim Black)
Subject: Re: RAM and performance
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.074334.12133@hardy.u.washington.edu>
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Reply-To: jjb@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Jim Black)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
References: <1991Apr19.170917.19511@hardy.u.washington.edu> 
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 07:53:04 GMT

I want to thank everyone who responded about the RAM upgrade.  I got a 
lot of detailed responses promptly in email, too, I really appreciate it.  

The unanimous consensus was that an upgrade would make a *very* significant
improvement in performance - just an additional 4MB (12 total) is apparently 
a big difference - and most folks really recommended having 16-24MB in the 
system.  (16MB was pretty much agreed as a minimum, more if possible ...
superlatives such as "heavenly" were common for describing the upgrade.  :)   

This definitely explains why my 040 cube can be a touch sluggish, I'll have
to get that RAM upgrade now.
--
Jim Black  (jjb@u.washington.edu)