OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Mike Schwartz (PC Support) wrote:
>     I didn't believe that adding more RAM would solve the problem, but my
> boss bumped it up to 512K anyway.  We also added the 3-user card, and I was
> amazed that we could now run 5 users on the computer at the same time typing
> in filePro data with relatively little jerkiness.  Based on my IBM mainframe
> and Dec PDP experience, I had told him that we would never run 5 users
> adequately, even with the additional RAM.

Shared text overpowers swapping, every time.

Cheers,
-- jra
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