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- From: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 00:14:05 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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- In article <oj6pwcl0ztd.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>, koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- >
- >babbage@dmu.ac.uk (Babbage) wrote:
- >
- >[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.
-
- First, a bare Amiga can boot in 256k, or 1 meg if you want to have the OS in
- ram.
-
- >
- >On my Amiga the Workbench screen *alone* is over a Mb, not to mention
-
- No. My system, with my telecom program loaded has used < 1 mb. Closer to 650k
- or so with OS in RAM.
-
- >all the utilities that I load to get the system up to a reasonable level
- >of functionality (disk cache, buncha commodities, a decent shell,
-
- - all of this is by choice, not what is necessary for os functionality
- (I don't use any non-C= utils).
- - all of these will appear for the BeBox, like they did for the Mac
- - none of this is counted in base OS size
-
- >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.
-
- Resource tracking and memory protection could be added in less than 5k.
- The Amiga doesn't really need (and I hope it never has) VM. If we keep OS and
- app memory usage down, together with dropping memory prices, it is unnecessary.
-
- >
- >It doesn't seem that bad to me.
-
- It does to me. 5 out of the initial 16 mb down the tubes just for the OS? Win95
- all over again...
- >
- > - steve
-