Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu!yann
From: yann@ai.toronto.edu (Yann le Cun)
Subject: Re: Choice Memory or Hard Drive?
Message-ID: <1988Mar1.181823.23249@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
References: <3158@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Mar-88 18:18:22 EST


In article <3158@dasys1.UUCP> samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) writes:
>I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000.  Due to economic
>limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a
>hard drive.  Which do you think should be given priority,
>if it has to one or the other for now?  Would also appreciate
>any recommendations, based upon satisfactory performance, of
>either, or both of those devices.  Forgot to mention that my
>1000 at present has 512K.  Thanks for any advice or leads!

I'd go for the memory first. With 2.5Meg you can load around 1meg of
useful stuff in a recoverable ram disk and still have 1.5 meg to work with,

If you run a shell and put the most useful files in the ram-disk (compiler,
linker, more, include files, librairies....), you won't access the diskette
very often. And a ram disk is faster than a hard disk.  

You can add a diskette cache program like FACCII if you still aren't happy.

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