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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher)
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Date: 19 Jun 91 18:12:06 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.203338.23645@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:


	   IF the person we're giving advice to may really need more
   than 18MB of RAM, then probably the Unix machine would be better
   suited. From what I've seen of the Unix machines, the NeXT in
   particular, is that the biggest slowdowns occur when paging
   to/from disk. If there were constant paging the slowdown could be
   enormous. That's why if it fits in memory, keep it there.
	   As to also using a WP and a compiler, they take up very
   minimal amounts of memory, especially compared to Mathematica (or
   Maple in this case). Not particularly relevant.
	   -- Ethan

I was referring to the fact that playing with C on a computer w/o
memory protection isn't a good thing if you are going to run a 
program in the background for a few hours.

-Mike