AM> 8Mb or bigger caches?  What a waste of memory and CPU resources...

RS> Thats not as true as you might think, big Novell servers routinely
RS> use monster caches like that. And it makes a hell of a difference to
RS> the performance. Its not even that expensive in some ways, $500 isnt
RS> exactly the crown jewels.

AM> Yeah, I'd forgotten that Paul runs a big Novell server as well as a BBS...

Pay attention boy, dont let you sorjourn to the flesh pots distract you
from the only thing which matters, email.

You were implying that monster caches, as Paul wanted to run on his BBS
by using HPFS386, were useless and nutty, because of a 'waste of memory
and cpu resources'. The Novell experience shows that very large caches
like that can indeed work very well if implemented right. Thats got
nothing at all to do with whether Paul needs to run Novell or not.

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