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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Ramdoubler?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:03:00 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
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- In article "Re: Amiga Ramdoubler?" Andrew said:
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- >On 31 Jan 1996, Michael B Andersen wrote:
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- >> >Would it be possible to convert the Mac program "RAMDoubler" to use with
- >> >an Amiga with MMU? If not, why?
- >>
- >> NO,
- >>
- >> Because RAM doubler can't double the RAM on any computer :). The MAC has a
- >> problem in the way it allocates memory, witch results in large amounts of
- >> RAM being allocated, but not in actual use. The "Mighty" Amiga :) has'nt
- >> got that problem "thank god!".
-
- Well, a friend of mine runs programs that REQUIRE 8 Mb, and he's only got 4!
- And yes, he's tried it with VMM switched off.
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- >Surely it is possible to setup a ramdrive as a compressed volume with one
- >of the diskexpander utils. Then the virtual mem swap-file could be put on
- >that ramdrive. There are plenty of compressors that would be able to shift
- >data faster than a hard-disk when they run on an '040 or a PowerPC - but
- >they would struggle on an '030.
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- You mean, let the VM include the RAM-drive which includes the VM which...
- Or can you set the ramdrive.device or whatever to NOT use VMM?
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- >Also, I think some of the windows utils do actually use compression but
- >they don't achieve anything like the doubling figure they claim.
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- >Andrew Bainbridge
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- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
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