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From: seghers@hpccc.HP.COM (David Seghers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virtual memory init
Message-ID: <5360031@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 89 22:51:28 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Computing Center
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>/ hpccc:comp.sys.mac / dlt@csuna.UUCP (Dave Thompson) / 12:42 pm  Jan 11, 1989 /
>
>On the front page of this week's MacWeek (10 January 1989) there is an
>article entitled:  "Virtual memory ends RAM jam."  Connectix Corporation
>	has come out with a package containing a PMMU and an INIT for $695 that
>creates an 8mb swapfile on disk, far cheaper that an 8mb DRAM upgrade.
>The article states that there is "some" performance degradation on 1mb
>RAM machines but performs adequately on 2mb machines and with no noticeable
>degradation on 4mb machines.  Sounds great!!

>My question is:  are there any beta testers of this software out there on
>the net who would be willing to attest to the quality of this product?
>Comments?

I'm not a beta site for this product, but I did see a demo of it at SMUG
(Stanford).  It was very impressive, and showed no performance degradation
on a 2 Meg Mac II with 8 meg of programs loaded (graphics, spreadsheet, C plus
debugger, etc.).  I called the company the next day to find out when I could
get mine, and was told that it will be ready for MacWorld, and the price
will be $495 as a show special.  This includes a PMMU which is required for thisprogram to run.  I was also told that the reason there was no performance 
penalty on the 2 meg machine was that each individual program would fit into
the 2 megs when swapped in, and this is why the 1 meg machine might be slower
depending on the programs being run.  Cautions:  Needs 8 meg contiguous free
disk space on the boot disk, and if you already have 8 meg DRAM, it won't
give you another 8.

There was a typo in the MacWeek article on the phone #.  It is 415-324-0727.

I have no connection with the company that sells this, 

David Seghers (Waiting for DRAM prices to fall! Ha! Now I won't care!)

Generic disclaimer, my opinions are my own, keep my employer out of it.!
(including "I HATE vi"!!!! Hold your flames for better issues)