> On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, John Alvord wrote:
>
> > Memory is getting so inexpensive in some environments, wouldn't it make
> > sense to have an option to reserve DMA-able memory at init time? With 16
> > megs going for $60, it is worth setting aside 4megs or 8 megs which would
> > have to be specially requested.
>
> Another way to think of that is that at this price, with 5 million
> Linux users, 1 byte of memory per user is worth $20. 1K in the kernel
> is worth $20K.
>
> So saving memory is indeed worth it!
> --
Actually, half that.. You can get a 32meg sim for $60 (wholesale, 60ns
edo.. maby $60 for a sdram 16)..