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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Theese Specs are crud!
- Date: 26 Mar 96 17:05:06 +0000
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- Hi, Jolyon Ralph , on 20-Mar-96 17:29:57 you scribbled....
- >> well, lets see......"Hello, buy your Amiga today! And If you dont have
- >> the memory, then just open up a swapp-file and make your machine crawl
- >> around slowly like a Windoze PC since as soon as you boot you start
- >> using fake memory"
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- >Just because Windows has the most diabolical VM implementation ever seen
- >doesn't meen that VM itself is a bad thing. You may think it slows down
- >your computer to a crawl, but if, every now and then, you need to edit a
- >HUGE 24-bit image, and you don't have the memory, wouldn't you rather be
- >able to edit it (albeit slowly) than have to wait until you can afford
- >another SIMM?
- >
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- >Jolyon
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- why not do it as a developer:
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- if exec fails to give you an allocated amount, open a disk file of that
- amount....
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- although you'd probably have to rewrite too large a portion.....
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- Mike
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