From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_mynewroads.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 19:29:12 EST
Remember the IBM folks that thought that 64k was more than enough memory and that
nobody would ever need more? Just think what they would have said if they had a
crystal ball that worked!
Bill
Randal Whittle wrote:
> At 04:16 PM 11/21/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >The difference is in how often Windows hits on its swap file on the hard
> >drive. Hard drive time versus RAM time. With more memory the swap file gets
> >used less. Put Windows in a 32mb machine and see how often the hard drive
> >light goes on.
>
> Thanks Bill, but I know that very well.
>
> What I was really asking was that I find it hard to fathom how
> anyone could really "fill" 256 MB of RAM and thereby see a real difference
> by going to 512 MB. But I guess some folks are just really hard core. :-)
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