From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:22:38 -0500
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QBallLives wrote:
> 
> >
> >i don't think this is relevant at all.
> >
> >
> 
> I sincerely apologize Sinan.... but I do believe conventional memory 
> (or lack thereof...) can have a significant impact on nearly any 
> operation you'd want to perform...

not in this case.

> 
> btw... (not that this is referring to YOUR post) - a Pentium is NOT 4 
> times faster than my 486.... it's FORTY (40) times faster.... I've 
> been getting alot of e-mail telling me my computer must be messed 
> up....

my desktop machine is a 486DX4-75 (roughly the same overall performance
as a DX2-66) with a WD hard drive, and 16 MB memory. i routinely use
p133s and p166s at school with similar hard drives and 32 Mb. they are
NOT forty times faster. what may be 40 times faster (or more) is the 300
Mhz Pentium II with 128 Mb, and 2 4 gig IBM SCSI HDs (the swap file is
on the second drive) i just set up for my committee chair, not your
run-of-the-mill pentium.

if you are happy, that's fine.

  -- Sinan