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- In article <3gcj39$7i9@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, stranahan@aol.com (Stranahan) says:
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- >I don't see why LW wouldn't run in 8 megs under Win 3.1 with Win32/s
- >running - you could make money with it, too, doing plently o' neat logos
- >and sundry doo-dads...
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- Oh, I can think of a few reasons: Win32s is about 2 megs of DLLs, and
- maybe half of them might get swapped into memory while running. If you're
- running Windows for Workgroups (if you wanted any networking) then consume
- more memory. If you load LW and Modeler, about 1 meg total of executables
- not counting any run-time memory needs, which are probably comparable to
- the Amiga version (whatever that number of megs is), plus memory to hold
- those brushed-aluminum "Chevy Vans!" logos and maps, yeah, I'd say that
- eight megs isn't enough for Windows and LightWave.
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- >More RAM is good, but I only have 24 Megs in my P90 and I expect I'll be
- >fine. The 'upgrade to 32 megs' thing is by no means mandatory...
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- "Expect" You know, when you "expect", you make an ex out of p and ect.
- Or something like that.
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- What'll happen when you try it in eight megs? You'll start swapping
- to virtual memory, which makes all that nitpicking about seconds-worth
- differences in rendering times a foolish dream... seconds will turn to
- minutes.
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