[X4U] RAM lessons even the stubborn can learn

[David Ledger]

>>From: Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca>
>>>  modern Mac's that they're so
>>>  blasted touchy when it comes to RAM.
>>
>>  that is supposed to be a characteristic of all Unix flavors.
>
>Is this true? I've never had a RAM problem and all I use is no name type RAM
>including my Linux box.

Just about all other Unix flavours run on high performance hardware 
with proprietary memory design so all RAM made is of sufficient 
quality. The Mac shares a memory design with less demanding systems, 
so less capable memory is available. If your Linux box is x86 based 
it will be less demanding. The Mac's PPC chip is at the low end of a 
high performance chip range; the Pentium is the top end of a moderate 
performance chip range. The hardware aspect is probably more an issue 
of the techniques used to load/dump the cache from/to real memory 
than the details of the CPU though, and I don't know much about that.

David


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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
Chair of HPUX SysAdmin SIG of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
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