Hello Ian,

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 8:04:17 AM, you wrote:

I> I'm repeating my queries (below) as the first posting received a deafening
I> silence.  Has no-one any comment to make on these subjects?
I> ----------------------
I> 1. There was some talk a while back of the possibly disadvantageous effects
I> of having a heap of ram.  My W98SE system has 2 sticks of 256 PC2100 DDR, so
I> I pulled one stick out to see if it ran any differently.  I can't detect any
I> changes.
I> Anyone seen any information relating to a possible excess of ram?

I> 2. I'm trying out Zone Alarm.  I saw a mention somewhere in my travels about
I> dial-up connections not needing Zone Alarm or similar firewalls.  I'm
I> curious to know if there is any foundation to this comment.

I> Ian Porter
I> Computer Guys
I> Arrowtown
I> New Zealand
I> [log in to unmask]

As I know the productivity of OS saturates with increasing RAM. For
example: Win95 saturates in the range 16- 32MB, Win98 - in the range
32- 64MB, Win2000- in the range 64- 128MB, WinXP- in the range 128-
256MB for client mashine. My Win2000 Terminal Server (with 10 clients)
works without saturation with 512MB (used 0nly about 400MB).

Summary: With simple office progs and games there are no need in big
amount of RAM.


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