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To: AurumRabosa who wrote (48729)	9/28/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: TREND1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Ron ????? Larry Dudash

To: AurumRabosa who wrote (48729)	9/28/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 53903

Ron, it helps with any application which is equipped to use more, subject to the virtual memory manager efficiency in your OS. In my case, it's photoshop type applications where I generate files as large as 100 MB -- then I edit the file, and the application is now managing over 200MB in virtual memory (the extra 100 MB is for the "undo" button!). Believe me, when you only have 32MB or 64MB, you wait a long time for it to redraw (sometimes 10 minutes!). But I usually don't scan at such resolutions and so it's rarely beneficial for me to have more RAM! Some servers can easily gain efficiency up to 256MB and 512MB, as can workstations which run applications (running UNIX or NT usu.) which manipulate enormous databases. My brother works with a database that has several hundred thousand entries, and when he needs to do a sort, it can take a couple hours. But his database size so dwarfs memory that higher speed disks have more of an impact on accelerating performance than extra RAM -- and it's now cheaper to go that way!