Exactly. The point was, the deadline was coming up in a few weeks. We had work up to our eyeballs with everything else, if we could punt this issue till it really REALLY becomes a problem, we should. And we did. And it hasn't been a problem.
It was a commercial product, but honestly the people who ran this would have no problem paying an extra 2 grand or so for ram for major performance gains (remember this aint your standard sdram).