John McWilliams wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>>
>> Rita,
>> Disk I/O is VASTLY slower than ram access. Worse, many programs
>> seem to access 'scratchpad' files in a terribly inefficient,
>> 'byte-wise' manner making things terribly slow. The best solution is
>> to load the computer with all the ram it can handle, and get one with
>> a quad-core (or two of them), and a fast HD. Frankly, Windows does a
>> terrible job of swapping ram to and from disk.
>
> Hey, Ron, it's been awhile. You'll be delighted to know the new Mac
> desktop is an eight core -Xeon-, can run OS X as well as Vista, and many
> flavors of other PC software if one were nostalgic.
>
> Arguing with "Rita" is like wrestling with a pig in mud. Even when
> you've got it pinned, it's just loving the mud.
>
With that many cores, it could probably run both at the same time.
Never mind, I am schizo enough without thinking about that. Grin.
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