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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher)
Message-ID: <9123@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:27:38 GMT
References: <fv5H7bfy@cs.psu.edu> <1991Jun17.172930.13518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <nd8H?xjy@cs.psu.edu>
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In article <nd8H?xjy@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <1991Jun17.172930.13518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>BTW, RAM is down to $40/meg, and the price of 4MB SIMMS is rumored to
>be ready to drop again.

Really?  That's good news.

Disk space is still well below $5/meg.  I recently picked up a new 600 meg
drive for $1200, that's $2/meg.  *THIS* is the advantage which virtual
memory has -- that it is cheaper.  You simply buy enough memory to satisfy
normal usage and for abnormal times you have disk to expand into...

>-Mike


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