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- Path: nntp.teleport.com!sschaem
- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 21:59:11 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4e11bf$ck3@maureen.teleport.com>
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- Manfred Matzinger (matzing@ping.at) wrote:
-
- : Hi!
-
- : On 21-Jan-96 18:10:45, Steve Koren <koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> wrote:
- : >> The Amiga doesn't really need (and I hope it never has) VM.
-
- : SK> 16 Mb, and as I am sitting typing this message, I am using 28 Mb of
- : SK> virtual memory, because LW is rendering a huge thing in the background,
- : [...]
-
- : I totally agree with Steve! I really need my 68030 (*with* MMU), because I
- : sometimes have to juggle with lots of pictures with ImageMaster and I don`t want
- : to by > 100 MB of RAM for that. My present record on VMM used (and
- : really *needed*!) was ca. 140 MB. Not very fast, but if there`s no other
- : way (excpet a very expensive one)...
-
- I wonder how much cheaper is a ec030... if it was a major price cut, it
- would have been interesting to have some sort of software 'virtual memory'
- using a lock mechanism.
-
- Stephan
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