Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NOTHING beats real ram, and when it's so amazingly cheap, there's no > real reason not to stuff it full. (Sez the guy who thought he got an > amazing deal when he bumped his Mac Plus up to 2.5 mb for only $200 in > the day. I can buy over a gig of memory for that price now. I know one > person who spent $1600 on 32 megs of ram...but he had an awesome Mac II > system!) > > > > > Hmmm... on my powerbook (540c, 68040 lite) I have a bootable ram disk. > > On that, I use it for longer battery life, but it would also give more > > performance! Maybe I'll try a huge ram disk on a desktop. > > ROFL, not on a system with only 80 megs of ram!
Last night, for grins, I made as big a RAM disk as my 7300 could-- which turned out to be about 30M-- and put a system folder with the 9.1 Finder and System. I booted it, and ran something called "Time Drive," I think it came with Silverlining. The RAM disk tested as being between 10 and 30 times faster than the real drives. Seriously, when upgrading a computer, the use of that computer needs to dictate the upgrades. For instance, somewhere I have a cd with a molecular dynamics simulation program that I used for my master's thesis. Basically it simulates what happens to the atoms in a liquid. On my G3-300, even a shorter run would last 3 days (during which the screen clock wouldn't even update!). More memory wouldn't help, a faster disk only marginally, but a faster processor and more cache would have done wonders. -- Dana [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
