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From: north@down.FUN (Stephen C North)
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Subject: Re: Memory Law
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 23:06:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 23:06:06 1985
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Reply-To: north@down.UUCP (Stephen C North)
Organization: CS Dept., Princeton University
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why wouldn't you be delighted to get rid of the slowest part of the
memory hierarchy?  or do you like paging and reading disk files because
it gives the cpu plenty of time to run sendmail?  or do you run just 8
megs of disk, so more memory is superfluous?  or is the problem that
you haven't the vaguest idea how to intelligently manage 128 megabytes
of memory, and running 128 1-meg processes sounds so stupid that you'd
better just unplug all those extra boards and send them back before
anything worse happens?
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