on 10/3/01 11:19 AM, [???] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Dear god, I didn=B9t even know they made those... I know a magazine with >> specially modified cases that they still use to hold all the ram they need >> to keep certain spreads all in RAM. > > what would be the benefit of keeping any file completely in ram...and how is > that accomplished!?
Quite a bit is accomplished... The RAM in your computer is many, many orders of magnitude faster than your hard drive. If a program can't hold everythin git needs in RAM, it will use the hard drive as RAM... Which can cause major slow downs as it is reading and writing. Photoshop would be a good example... Lets say you have 128 megs of ram, but are having to work with a 200 megabyte picture... Well, your system takes 25-30, so photoshop can hold 100 megs of the pictures information that you're working on which would mean it would constantly be writing/reading to the hard drive just to do what you needed. I you had 1.5 gigs of ram, photoshop wouldn't have to do that at all... It would be able to hold the entire picture completely in its memory. Mucho faster. Basically, it was a magazine (about 2-3yrs ago? That had taken 9600's and had them specially modified to be able to take 1 gig of ram (they used to make contraptions that let you double up the ram slots you had, etc... But this was more than that) so they could hold 2 full-page spreads of the magazine on their screen and in memory so the designer could see what the whole thing would looked like, and it was much much much faster. > by the way, in regards to huge ram (which will be laughably small in a > couple of years, anyway), SGI has a system that will ship with 8 gigs fully > equipped! if there was ever a system i would consider trading my mac > for......sorry, i was mesmerized by the numbers. Heh, very specialized, but still very cool huh? SGI used to be the bomb... They're dying out, but from what I've read their memory controllers and the technologies they use to get memory bandwidth are still very very cool. *can't wait for it to all trickle down* -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
