Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Memory Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 16:10:32 GMT References: <1991Jun14.125927.18256@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu's message of 14 Jun 91 12:59:27 GMT Unfortunately, I have no way of doing side-by-side comparisons. But upgrading memory from 8MB to 20MB (which is, IMHO the most economical upgrade) made a real difference in the speed of things like TeX (the NeXT is the fastest TeX-machine I have ever run on) and Mathematica. When I had 8 MB and ran Mathematica anything else seemed to run at a snail's pace. With the 20 MB my patience never gets taxed. I presume for heavy Mathematica use 32 MB is preferable. Let's hope that Mathematica 2.0 is less of a memory-hog. Same was true for XNeXT -- with 8 MB it was really sluggish. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET