Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1840 comp.os.misc:627 comp.misc:3843 comp.arch:6691 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Message-ID: <40496@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 17 Oct 88 14:37:59 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <17479@gatech.edu> <453@oracle.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 16 In article <453@oracle.UUCP> csimmons@oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes: | | Random question for the day... Suppose I buy one of these NeXT | boxes, and I buy, say, a 30MB hard disk drive with 20 ms seek times | for something less than $1000. Now, I attach this little drive | to my SCSI port. At this point, I basically teach the operating | system to use the disk as a cache for the slower optical drive. You could easily mount /tmp and /bin on the fast hard disk, as well as some swap space, which would speed things up significantly. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include