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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Theese Specs are crud!
- Date: 01 Apr 1996 09:34:43 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
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- In-reply-to: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca's message of Sat, 16 Mar 1996 02:25:49 GMT
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- mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin) wrote:
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- > to use VM they ought to have that privelege. The idea that VM
- > capability will "slow things down to a crawl" is a myth. Obviously
-
- Reg Martin is correct. But since people do not, in general, comprehend
- the difference between paging and thrashing, nor do they understand even
- a token amount of VM system theory, this will keep coming up.
-
- There was a decent discussion of this just a few days ago, with a number
- of knowledgeable people commenting, but I think it is one of those
- things we're doomed to repeat every few days, like the "060/50 is twice
- as fast as a P6 at 200 MHz!" thing.
-
- - steve
-