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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.191750.1081@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 19:17:50 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.171946.20859@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.051040.9352@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>>If my
>>operating system *doesn't* make full use of a few thousand dollars
>>in hardware at any point in time, then I consider that operating 
>>system out of date, and that that operating system is making me spend
>>more of my time dealing with it.
>
>You would rather your OS make full use of all of your memory and disk than
>your application(s)?

Obviously I am using applications when I'm using the OS.

Also, the OS heavily influences how the applications are written, which
is more than evident on the NeXT.  In short, the OS and applications
are in cooperation (or should be) in helping me do what I want to do.
I want them *both* to make full use of the hardware I can afford.

NeXTstep seems to be well balanced in that regard, on a 16M 68040 machine
that is.  NeXT should consider making 16M the base amount (24M for color).
It only cost me $340 for the other 8M.  It would probably cost them less
than that even.  The benefit would be a much much better impression of
the machine by customers and reviewers.  The speed gain from 8M to 16M
is that impressive.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu