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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Hedge for VIScorp?
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 20:45:30 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Access Company
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- GREMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU wrote:
- : The key to VIScorp' set top box seems to be that with the Amiga OS,
- : they don't need as much ram. OK. But the price of ram is falling fast
- : now, so doesn't that mean that the marginal advatage of the VIScorp
- : ED is lessened?
-
- You are correct. The Amiga OS does its thing using less RAM than
- any more or less comparable OS available today. The falling price of RAM
- reduces that advantage. Think, though, of how big that advantage -is-!
- How much RAM do you need to run Win'95, WinNT, MacOS, OS/2, UNIX or VMS?
- The least of these requires an 8MB minimum configuration - and doesn't
- guarantee full functionality at that level. 1.3 could run in less than
- 1/2MB and 3.1 in 1 MB. OK, let's say that you want 2MB for 3.1 to be
- fully configured - that's still more than 6MB of advantage.
- And that's cheating a bit. We didn't count the 1/2 to 2MB of
- "video RAM" in that 8MB for the other systems. We compared a fully
- functioning Amiga vs a minimal configuration anything else. A standard
- "Walker" should come with 2+4MB, similar to what I have in my A3000. It
- will be -fully- configured for most uses at that level. Only a few memory
- hogs (3D ray-tracing, video, sound sampling, etc) will require more. A
- properly configured multi-tasking non-Amiga should have 2+16MB - three
- times what the Amiga has. A TWELVE MB advantage. Even at the current,
- depressed, prices for memory, that's what? $200? $250? In a box scheduled
- to cost $500?
-