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["Alex Jeppesen" <jailbait@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well then i sugest that its run a bit better than windows and has the OPTION
to turn it off unlike windows :) and i ment to send this to the AtheOS
mailing list. OOPS!
----- Original Message -----
From: "jaf" <jaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:24 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V1 #100


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> Alex Jeppensen wrote:
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> >Even the biggest programs will
> >not use this memory,
>
> Watch yourself, or you will end up in people's .sig files along with
> Bill Gates' prediction about nobody needing more than 640k... ;^)
>
> >and if they do get 2 gigs of ram. virtual memory is
> >hard to write and slows even the fastes computer reading and writing
> from
> >the HD.
>
> Virtual memory doesn't slow anything down unless it is actually used,
> and it doesn't get used unless/until all your RAM has been allocated.
> So on a 1-2 gig machine, it's very likely (for now ;^)) that the VM
> system
> will never access your hard drive at all.
>
> >Is it really worth the effort?
>
> Yup.  Not everyone has a gig of RAM lying around.  And even if they
> did, there will be a time when everyone has 10GB of RAM and 5TB of
> hard disk, and programs that occasionally need to allocate 50GB at
> once, and VM will be the solution then, same as it is now.
>
> Jeremy
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