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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: RAM and performance
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.015527.13960@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 01:55:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.135539.2058@ulrik.uio.no>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Apr22.135539.2058@ulrik.uio.no> me@spirea.UiB.NO (My Account) writes:
>>  [text deleted  --SJB]
>I have a 040 cube at home (optical + accelerator drive) , with 2.0 and 16MB RAM.  At school I use a 030 cube under 1.0a with 16 MB RAM, and a 1.2 Gig disk.  I notice the difference - the cube at home is definately faster.  And with 16MB I avoid all those ugly swapping noises (hey gang, if I have a swap disk how come the optical is always causing a racket...?).  With 8MB things take much longer to load, run, and switch between.  

     Well, it *does* stand to reason that a 68040 should be faster than
a 68030 when you say they both have 16MB of RAM, right?
     BTW, can't you be more careful with the line length in your postings?
400+ characters per line is a bit wide for a terminal.
>
>I scored 8MB for about $200 so imagine its worth it performance wise.  The 040's gotta have room to breath!  Watch out for parity and non parity mixing - I originally thought my upgrade board was bad (Exception 5 0xa something or other) but it was the mixed memory.  I've swapped the original NeXT (non parity) memory with some friends who still have PC's and don't need parity checking.  You could also buy regular non parity SIMMs (cheaper too!) and avoid the hassle of a mixed memory board.

     Have you checked recently to see if those people are still your 
friends?  :-)  Pee cees use parity memory.  As for buying non-parity
memory for a NeXT, well, it's a crying shame to do that to a NeXT,
but I guess it's okay if you're not going to use it for anything 
important.

>  [more deleted  --SJB]
>--
>Thor-Lee Legvold                 |         ppstl@nobergen.earn (or .bitnet)
>University of Bergen             |         ppstl@cc.uib.no
>NORWAY                                |        and now on NeXT...
>Hvor mye for datter'n din...? |        me@fiol.uib.no


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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