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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:05:02 -0700
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- In-reply-to: babbage@dmu.ac.uk's message of 15 Jan 1996 19:51:08 GMT
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- babbage@dmu.ac.uk (Babbage) wrote:
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- [of BeOS]
- > and use mem like win95
-
- Well, a while back someone posted that the memory footprint of the OS
- was about 5 Mb. This is not all *that* much more than the nearest
- equivalent Amiga. Sure, if you compare to a bare Amiga running
- 640x200x2, you can boot in 1 Mb, but this is not an equivalent system.
-
- On my Amiga the Workbench screen *alone* is over a Mb, not to mention
- all the utilities that I load to get the system up to a reasonable level
- of functionality (disk cache, buncha commodities, a decent shell,
- etc... my system takes about 3 Mb after boot). Then the Be is running
- RISC CPU, which adds some overhead, and has features AmigaOS lacks
- (resource tracking, memory protection, VM, etc), which also adds some.
-
- It doesn't seem that bad to me.
-
- - steve
-