[svlug] Upgrades

[David E. Fox]

>     The slowest part of your computer is the disk head -- seeking takes
> time, especially if you have swap and temp on the same drive.  I have seen
> a 486 DX 50 with 16 meg beat a 32 meg 100mhz Silicon Graphics Indy
> consistently _when_ it came to disk intensive tasks.  And vice versa on

No doubt about the disk head being slow in comparison with the 
rest of the system. A test like this still has me wondering about
how effective disk buffers and such are in the SGI in relationship to
the 486 system. With the Indy having twice as much RAM as the 486, one
would tend to think, for instance, that at least some of the extra RAM
on the Indy would be used for extra disk cache on disk-intensive 
operations, and since the 486 lacked that extra RAM, then one would
still expect an edge given to the Indy on something like this.

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