[rescue] G4 pricing

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Aug 17 09:47:17 CDT 2006


On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:26:37AM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:37:13PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > "Wordstar on an 4.077 MHz 8088 could keep up with my typing; WinWord
> > under Windoze on a 300 MHz PII can't." --Seth Breidbart
> 
> On a similar vein, there is a plausible use for 16GiB of RAM - run
> everything off a ramdisk. Even wordstar in a vm,  

I don't know.  That doesn't sound all that great of an idea.

Why not cut the ram to 8 gigs, turn off virtual memory, and use a 32gig
flash drive for software installs.

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