madler@tybalt.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) (03/29/90)
Just an aside ... I happened to be considering buying extra memory for my HP-48SX and my NeXT at the same time. 128K bytes for the HP costs only a little less than 4M bytes for the NeXT (about $200 mail order vs. $236 mail order). I realize that the 4 meg won't run off of a battery for a year, but then the 128K doesn't have a 100 nS access time either. Even though it's a little like apples and oranges, I find the $/bit ratio interesting. Mark Adler madler@hamlet.caltech.edu