First of all, they won't have the 60ns ram before Saturday.

So I decided to ring up Memory World, where I have gotten cheap
ram before, but no longer.

However what I did get, was confusion.

They sold:

60ns EDO ram for something like $550
60ns fast floppy gate ram for something like $480
70ns fast floppy gate ram for something like $440

Now the EDO ram is specially designed to work with machines such
as the Pentium.  I can't remember what the acronym stands for.
Do I need this?  Remember the sort of person I am:

1. 32 meg of memory
2. OS/2, taking maybe 6 meg
3. compiler taking maybe 3 meg
4. HPFS386 cache taking maybe 8 meg
5. FAT cache taking maybe 8 meg
6. CDROM cache taking 2 meg (maximum possible)

total = 27 meg.  The extra 5 would probably get used by some
spreadsheets or something (the BBS, e.g).

Now I sort of expect that most of my tasks would be IO bound, and
that the amount of cache I have will be getting all that memory-based.
Now if moving data about is not cpu-intensive, then I am left with
the ram speed as my bottleneck.  And if that is the case, then it
would seem silly to be getting stingy on the ram.

BFN.  Paul.
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