icsu8165@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Wood) (11/10/89)
Since system 7 is coming out in 1990, I would like to prepare for this event now. My question is, how much slower will virtual memory be? Should I go out and buy a fast hard drive, or is 28ms ok? Has anyone experienced a bad slowdown using the virtual init? Any thoughts and/or ideas are welcome. Thanks.
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (11/10/89)
In article <2469@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu8165@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Wood) writes: >Since system 7 is coming out in 1990, I would like to prepare for this >event now. My question is, how much slower will virtual memory be? >Should I go out and buy a fast hard drive, or is 28ms ok? Has anyone >experienced a bad slowdown using the virtual init? Any thoughts and/or >ideas are welcome. Thanks. Better yet, save up your money for a machine with an ultra-fast hard disk and DMA on the SCSI bus. For most people using current applications, and more than 2 megs of RAM, it isn't likely that virtual memory will mean that much, unless of course they like running a dozen open applications in MultiFinder. In other words, for most word processing, database, telecom, etc., most of the application heap will be run in RAM rather than from a virtual memory space on disk. Of course, for humongous spreadsheets, complex Mathematica operations, and 24-bit color scans, virtual memory will be a boon. All good things come to those who wait... John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |