Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virtual memory init
Message-ID: <985@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 14:23:12 GMT
References: <1542@csuna.UUCP> <40e7a0d1.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <40e7a0d1.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.UUCP (John F. Mansfield) writes:
>In article <1542@csuna.UUCP> dlt@csuna.UUCP (Dave Thompson) writes:
>>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.
>
>It sounds great, but it also said that if you have the PMMU, which I
>have, then the software alone would be something like $250.  Also in
>the article it said the init was something like 10K, isnt this rather
>a lot for such a small piece of software or am I missing something?

Would you be happier if it were 100K rather than 10K?  :-)

But seriously, assuming it works well, think about how much memory
you could buy for that same $250.  That's why they can charge what
they're charging (a price which does not seem at all out of line
to me).

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