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Laurence Payne NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com wrote:

And, as I've had to say FAR too many times before when the old bogey
of swapping has been cited, it's having systems with sufficient RAM
that this WON'T happen that has enabled reliable use of a standard
computer as a DAW. Program code is now tiny compared with physical
RAM.


Sure, but data sets are often huge when compared with physical ram. It's
easy to make a PT system thrash if you throw enough tracks onto it.

No matter how fast and large computers get, users always figure out ways to
make them slow.
--scott
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