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- From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon)
- Subject: Re: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
- Message-ID: <mdixon.715021124@thelonius>
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- References: <1992Aug23.051823.1291@ni.umd.edu> <1992Aug25.152745.21635@menudo.uh.edu> <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <15175@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:58:44 GMT
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- matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
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- >In article <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >> Sounds like one huge bandaid to me.... compressed???? Are they out of
- >> their mind? It's *already* too slow!
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- >Compare the speed of the '040 in compressing to the speed of a typical hard
- >disk.
-
- c'mon guys. this is yet another rehashing of a totally bogus
- discussion based on complete misunderstanding of a third-hand
- reporting of a misunderstood remark. it doesn't make any
- sense to use data compression on the swapfile, and next isn't
- doing it.
- --
-
- .mike.
-