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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > David Schultz   wrote:   
   >>Main memory (DRAM of some type) is the new hard disk.   
   >>   
   >>The difference in speed between cache and main memory looks a lot like   
   >>the difference between main memory and hard disk did a few decades ago.   
   >>So if you thrash the backing store, operation will slow down.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Potentially complicating things are an OS. Is this Forth running bare   
   >>metal on the AMD with no OS? If there is an OS then all sorts of memory   
   >>management issues appear.   
   >>   
   >>If you need more memory space than you have physical memory, it will   
   >>seem as if your backing store is a tape drive. :-)   
   >   
   > Everybody knows that, including myself.   
   >   
   > Haven't you read the original post?   
   > I'm not using half of the ram present.   
      
   You still don't know what kind of memory management strategy your OS is   
   using.   
      
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