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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.172930.13518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 17:29:30 GMT
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In article <fv5H7bfy@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>In article <1991Jun17.142339.21049@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>
>	   I THINK you are better off with the 3000, not the 3000UX.
>   The Amiga OS doesn't have virtual memory, but RAM is cheap and if
>   you put in 9MB you will probably never run out. And yes, it has a
>   nicer interface and the interface is much faster (although number
>   crunching is probably the same). Also, Maple has been out under
>   AmigaDOS for a while, it is new on Unix.
>
>Memory is cheap, but Mathematica can use more than 9MB of RAM.  Get a
>computer with virtual memory.
>
>-Mike

	And wait for it to page in and out? When memory is
$60/meg? What's the point? So get 18MB if you need that much. The
time it saves you (if you need it) makes it more than worth the
cost.
	-- Ethan

"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."