Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Pascal Schmidt:

 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. 

 PS> Well, two times the CPU power is worth absolutely nothing if your 
 PS> system is forced to swap stuff in and out all the time. You lose 
 PS> quite a lot of performance by having to wait for the hard disk. 
 PS> Going to disk is easily worth thousands of machine cycles on GHz 
 PS> CPUs.

 MMC> Agreed!  First step in any 'upgrade' is to add RAM to the max
 MMC> allowed by either the MB or the OS.  Beyond that, replace the old
 MMC> PIO HD with a modern fast one and a UDMA-133 controller to go with
 MMC> it.  Old 100 to 500 MHz CPUs will take on a new life.

I think this is a very good point,  at least with the stuff I'm doing here.
 More ram ain't a bad thing at all.

Hey!  Why are you calling the stuff I'm "upgrading" to
"old"?  :-)

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