Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Dennis Murphy (dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 09:35:39 MST
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Patrick Callahan wrote:
> >
> > An 8.4 "gig" hard disk really isn't. It's 8,400,000,000 bytes. That's
> > significantly less than 8.4GB, but from a marketing perspective, it's 8.4GB.
> >
> > It's always those damn marketing folks getting in the way! :-)
>
> exactly, and all my files fit on about 25% of one of those.
Wish I were that lucky. Just had to add another 20 gig drive to my
workstation, after I filled the first 10 gig one. :-)
--- Dennis Murphy Montclair State University College of Science & Mathematics SCInet Support & Development Group dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu (973)655-5414
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