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To: Dave B who wrote (30198)	9/22/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: the difference in the other applications I'm running when I'm scanning something.... You're seeing the results of the system trying to switch back and forth between two processes. The bottleneck is probably disk i/o and PCI bus contention as both the data sent from the scanner and your program try to write and read the disk (by far the most likely) or it could be due to task switching - probably not the problem, but if it is you need lower latency memory like PC133/VC not rambus. Most likely you would benefit most from more memory to allow a larger disk cache. Since PC133/VC is cheaper, and your most likely change to improve performance is simply more memory, the less expensive, higher density PC133/VC is the better choice. Dan

To: Dave B who wrote (30198)	9/23/1999 9:40:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

see the difference in the other applications I'm running Sounds interesting--What do you do on your machine, and what apps are you using? And, do you think these apps will improve just with a new processor, or do they draw on RAM a lot, so that the memory bus will have to be faster sooner rather than later? I'd really like to develop a laundry list of apps that will benefit from rambus, say with an 800 or 1000 Mhz processor in the next year or so. Best regards, JS