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From: yap@hammer.me.toronto.edu ()
Date: Sat Oct 15 23:26:16 EDT 1988
Message-ID: <11432.1988Oct15.23:26:16@hammer.me.toronto.edu>
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Subject: Re: Speed of the Next disk, what kind of network?
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Reply-To: yap@hammer.me.UUCP
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering

>Anyway, as others have already pointed out, it probably isn't going to
>page much with 8MB standard memory.
>
>Jeff Siegal

8MB is DICK-ALL!!!  If you're going to do any extensive symbolic math with
Mathematica, you'll need all you can get.  I've run out of memory using
Macsyma on a Sun 3/180 with 24MB of usable memory (real + virtual), admittedly
the gist of the problem lies with Macsyma's inability to do garbage collection
correctly on the Sun (at least with the version of Macsyma we're using).
However, this doesn't detract from the fact that you need gobs of real plus
sloooow virtual memory to do anything useful.

I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if Mathematica worked well (<-- fast) with 
less memory.

Perhaps I'm ignorant, at least I'm happy, Davin.

--
Davin Yap, Dept. of Mech. Eng., U of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA, M5S 1A4 
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