On 6/3/2011 6:48, Invisible wrote:
> I'm going to sound really old now, but... I remember back in the days when
> the RAM was faster than the CPU.

The first mainframe I worked on had memory clocked at 8x the CPU speed. 7 
DMA channels for each CPU instruction executed. You could be swapping out 
two processes while bringing in two processes without noticing the load.

Even the Atari 400 had RAM clocked twice the CPU speed.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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