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From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
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Subject: Extra ram vs. hard disk
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 14:48:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 14:48:50 1987
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What should I do the next time I have $1000 burning a hole in my pocket?
That will buy either a 20 meg hard disk or 4 meg extra ram. (I've heard
prices of $500 for 2 meg, and I extrapolated. If this isn't right,
someone please correct me.)

Would I, with 4 meg, be able to keep Manx C with utilities and selected
libraries, linker, editor, and a bunch of CLI commands in ram?  (I have
just started exploring Manx C and don't yet have a feel for these
numbers.)  What would that leave for sources, object modules and
binaries? (I almost never work on programs with fewer than about ten
modules.)  After repeated edit/compile/run cycles, will fragmentation of
memory become a problem?

Assuming this is all feasible, what are opinions as to the wisdom of
proceeding in this way?

Jack Orenstein