On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Yep, a general rule of thumb I learned at college was that if you accessed a
> byte of data from memory, and it took one second, it would take over a week
> to do the same from disk!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] crash tests....
>
>
> Josh McCaffrey wrote:
> > sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what
> > would disk swapping be comparable to?
>
10ms??? Not my HD. The term "dinosaur" applies to younger and younger
'puters everyday, so my box is ancient (3 yrs old) in comparison to a
box purchased a month ago.
-Josh
> Well, typical disk accesses are around 10ms is I remember correctly...
>
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> Steve Philp
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> Advance Packaging Corporation
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