Was: Trying to get GUI'ed

Was: Trying to get GUI'ed

[John E. Jay Maass]

Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu> writes:

> Think that was informative?  Learn assembly on x86 Linux.
> You have NO idea what a computer goes through just to add
> two numbers, let alone manage network traffic...  The most
> shocking part is the idea of virtual memory.

Bryan,

I thought my little RAM thing was informative, yeah. It was
intended as practical, nothing esoteric or high minded. About
assembly language, a friend of mine worked with it and I took
a peek. I would love to know a little assembly. What I read
of it was impossible for me to grasp. Somehow I get by. With
great perseverance I manage to eventually grasp a little of
what others take for granted. Certainly nothing like assembly,
though <grins>.

All best,
Jay

 

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Re: Was: Trying to get GUI'ed

[Bryan Simmons]

didn't mean to sound condescending.  I was just trying to add to the
point of importance of RAM.  Virtual memory makes it so that you can
address MORE RAM than you physically have.  It has many other benefits
as well.  But it goes without saying that the more RAM you have, the
better.  When I first installed Mandrake 9.0, I ran it for 2 months
without using any swap space.  I have 512MB RAM.  I don't intend to
screw around with performance.  Hell, I'd use a gig or more if I thought
it wasn't overkill for my applications...



On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 07:01, John E. Jay Maass wrote:
> Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Think that was informative?  Learn assembly on x86 Linux.
> > You have NO idea what a computer goes through just to add
> > two numbers, let alone manage network traffic...  The most
> > shocking part is the idea of virtual memory.
> 
> Bryan,
> 
> I thought my little RAM thing was informative, yeah. It was
> intended as practical, nothing esoteric or high minded. About
> assembly language, a friend of mine worked with it and I took
> a peek. I would love to know a little assembly. What I read
> of it was impossible for me to grasp. Somehow I get by. With
> great perseverance I manage to eventually grasp a little of
> what others take for granted. Certainly nothing like assembly,
> though <grins>.
> 
> All best,
> Jay
> 
>  
> 
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Re: Was: Trying to get GUI'ed

[John E. Jay Maass]

Hi Bryan,

I get all coffeed up and stay up all crazy hours and maybe I
thought you were being condescending. So, the laugh's on me.
Yes, virtual memory is interesting, for as little as I know
of it. NT 4.0, don't quote me, can address up to 4 gigs of
virtual memory? When I finally got some amount of RAM I noticed
that my hard drive rarely ran. That point is further driven
home by your case of your Mandrake running 2 months without
swapping to hdd. Awesome. And better things arrive daily.
When the holographic images begin dancing in the living
room, I bet some computer users bow out. 512 mb is a nice
number. I have 256 mb in this Windows 2000 box, and love it.

I am anxious now to have my other 3 or 4 machines sharing
this Verizon DSL, especially my Red Hat 7.0 installation,
and maybe my machine with Steven Darnold's Basic Linux 1.61
onboard. I cannot be enthusiastic about my Linux boxes until
I have a router here.

While subscribing to this list I am using the dreaded Microsoft
product, and feeling guilty. On the subject of Windows 2000,
though, I am very pleased with the purchase. I laid out some
$300 to have a licensed copy of the OS, and am not sorry.
It has the executive services and the hardware abstraction
layer, and is darned stable, so far, knock on wood.

Thanks for putting up with my coffeed craziness.

Jay

> From: Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>
> Date: 2002/10/26 Sat PM 01:11:57 EDT
> To: "John E. Jay Maass" <jay.maass@verizon.net>
> CC: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Was: Trying to get GUI'ed
> 
> didn't mean to sound condescending.  I was just trying to add to the
> point of importance of RAM.  Virtual memory makes it so that you can
> address MORE RAM than you physically have.  It has many other benefits
> as well.  But it goes without saying that the more RAM you have, the
> better.  When I first installed Mandrake 9.0, I ran it for 2 months
> without using any swap space.  I have 512MB RAM.  I don't intend to
> screw around with performance.  Hell, I'd use a gig or more if I thought
> it wasn't overkill for my applications...
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 07:01, John E. Jay Maass wrote:
> > Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Think that was informative?  Learn assembly on x86 Linux.
> > > You have NO idea what a computer goes through just to add
> > > two numbers, let alone manage network traffic...  The most
> > > shocking part is the idea of virtual memory.
> > 
> > Bryan,
> > 
> > I thought my little RAM thing was informative, yeah. It was
> > intended as practical, nothing esoteric or high minded. About
> > assembly language, a friend of mine worked with it and I took
> > a peek. I would love to know a little assembly. What I read
> > of it was impossible for me to grasp. Somehow I get by. With
> > great perseverance I manage to eventually grasp a little of
> > what others take for granted. Certainly nothing like assembly,
> > though <grins>.
> > 
> > All best,
> > Jay
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> -- 
> Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>
> 
> 

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