Hi Charles.

04-Nov-03 08:06:02, Charles Angelich wrote to Jasen Betts


 CA> 1237dad7daee tech

 CA> Hello Jasen -

 CA> --8<--cut

 CA>>> With one gig or more of memory why would you _need_ swap. Swap
 CA>>> is a poor man's additional memory remember?

 JB>> If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many) with the
 JB>> money you save on ram swap can be good.

 CA> Possibly. But at some point you lose the option to double CPU
 CA> speed.

 CA>>>>> I for one won't miss the mechanical hard drives one bit.

 JB>> given the trends in reliability neither will I

 CA>>> The fans are annoying as a form of obligatory 'white noise'. Try
 CA>>> watching TV with 4 computers turned on. You need much more
 CA>>> volume from the TV to understand speech.

 JB>> a 16" hard drive isn't quiet either....

 CA> Mainframe?

I'm guessing mini. I was loose when I encountered it, 5 megabytes ( dunno
if 5*10^6 or 5*2^20 ) dunno what hardware it was used with. sold at auction
for $15 probably because it had a neat ORANGE desktop case out of 4mm
aluminium plate abpout the size of a fullsize desktop PC ...
(I'm not shouting it was that loud!)

hmm maybe it wasnt 16"  but definately more than 8

 -=> Bye <=-
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