Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!bruce!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!hunter From: hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher) Message-ID: <36@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 23 Jun 91 14:47:36 GMT Article-I.D.: phoenix.36 References: <71A0D62DC000263C@FANDM> <1991Jun17.142339.21049@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun17.233312.9357@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia. Lines: 24 In <1991Jun17.233312.9357@menudo.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes: >In article 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: >>>you put in 9MB you will probably never run out. And yes, it has a >>Memory is cheap, but Mathematica can use more than 9MB of RAM. Get a >>computer with virtual memory. >Or put 18 or so megs in your 'miga. Or get a *real* computer: >Sun SparcStation-2. Or an Intel iPSC/860. Or even better a new HP 720 snake.. Same price as SS2 and 2.5 times faster in real time testing. ie side by side running same code with full optimization on both. James -- James Gardiner [Hunter]. System Admin, Public Access UNIX Melbourne, Australia PubNet: phoenix!hunter | (voice)+613-532-8030 (data)+613-523-9865&+613-532-8029 Internet: hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au | PO BOX 54 Chadstone Centre UUCP:..!uunet!munnari!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!hunter | Melbourne Australia 3148