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- In article <johnc.9egs@bbs.xnet.com> johnc@bbs.xnet.com (John Crookshank) writes:
- >From: johnc@bbs.xnet.com (John Crookshank)
- >Subject: Re: Lightwave PC requirements
- >Date: 13 Feb 95 21:14:52 CST
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- >mjfilm@aol.com (MJFILM) writes:
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- >>From what I was told by Newtek at the recent Video Toaster show in L.A.
- >>Lightwave for the PC only requires 8 meg. I grilled them quite a bit and
- >>the impression I came away with is that a stock 8 meg 486 will run and
- >>render LW for Windows nicely....
- >>
- >>I guess seeing will be believing....
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- >'Course, these are the same folks that said 5MB and a 68000 was adequate to run
- >the Toaster. Adequate is a really relative term, no? I have customers who
- >require 80MB ram to use Lightwave, your mileage may vary. On the Amiga, I
- >personally consider 16MB the typical required ram to use LW properly, and I'm
- >just an shade-tree animator. Add 4-8MB of Windows overhead, and I'd say 32MB
- >makes more real-world sense for a Windows/LW box.
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- Windows requires less than 4MB (2-3MB). It has virtually memory included. I
- predict 16MB to be a very usable configuration and 8MB to be marginal. This
- is , of course, pure speculation. 32MB is better on any platform.
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