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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigas and Whiners....
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 12:59:37
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- Randy Vice (damocles@nostromo.gate.net) wrote:
- : On Mon 5-Feb-1996 2:19p, Nick Christie wrote:
- : NC> Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike) wrote:
- : NC> >Softkicking 2.04 costs 0$
- :
- : NC> Not quite. It costs 512K of RAM, and I suspect many people
- : NC> still using AmigaOS 1.3 will have only 512K or 1MB RAM installed,
- : NC> making soft-kicking 2.04 either impossible or impractical.
- :
- : NC> Then there's the on-disk 2.04 software. A soft-kicked system
- : NC> won't get far when an application asks for the commodities
- : NC> library.
- :
- : Question, does softkicking WB cost FAST RAM or Chip RAM?
-
- Either, depending on where you load the kickstart image. You'll get better
- performance, of course, if you load it into Fast RAM.
-
- -- Mat.
-