Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: SCSI interfaces - background capability Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 08:35:22 GMT References: <9106251106.AA05878@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun27.212244.5025@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: banksie@rata.vuw.ac.nz's message of 27 Jun 91 21:22:44 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Philip Banks says: On another vein this desire for Virtual memory that people have been expressing. To be honest I don't think the Arc really needs it. I upgraded to four Megs (I own an A3000 with floppy. Unfortunately sans hard drive...) and even with an 800K ram drive and somewhat ridiculous loading of applications I find it very hard to push the machine below the 1 Meg mark. With the new machines coming that have 16 Meg I really do not think that memory will be a problem. I now need a 2+Mb wimpslot to C-compile one of the modules of my virtual machine interpreter. They day before yesterday, my wife had installed [*1] Poster, Impression, and a couple of other applications. Result: I couldn't rebuild the VM. Yes, I'd like virtual memory (especially as my current garbage collector is a stop-and-copy one). We won't be able to afford more store for a while yet ... [*1] On the icon bar, and I didn't want to abandon her work. -- Regards, Chris ``GC's should take less than 0.1 second'' Dollin.