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- From: chaos@wiloyee.shnet.org
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCO
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- References: <john.hendrikx.49rj@grafix.xs4all.nl> <DLyA57.LpF@uns.bris.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:54:32 GMT
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- In article <DLyA57.LpF@uns.bris.ac.uk> you wrote:
- : John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : : In a message of 26 Jan 96 Mjp3783@alpha.isc.rit.e wrote to all:
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- : : On Amiga 4-8 MB is sufficient yes, on Windows NT, Win95, BeOS, OS/2, System 7,
- : : and most other modern OS-es, NO WAY! I would recommend atleast 16 MB for any of
- : : the OS-es I just listed, and if you want to get that 'Amiga' feeling of having
- : : tons of memory free then I would recommend getting 32 MB or more.
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- : 6Mb is so nice on an (accelerated) Amiga, I can run Wordworth, PPaint,
- : GFABASIC and Angband all at once, with no constant use of harddisk (like
- : the PC). Admittedly Wordworth is not Wordperfect and PPAint is not well,
- : um, can you think of a comparable programme? Anyhow, for somebody who
- : does not wish to use the many fancy features of PC programmes, they are
- : fine. (Though directly loading and saving PC file formats, such as .doc,
- : would be very useful.)
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- virtual memory is very important for a modern operating system. if you
- examine the situation carefully, you will find out that the harddisk makes
- your "main memory" and the real RAM is some kind of cache for the harddisk.
- you will further notice that there is a point, when adding more RAM doesn't
- speed things up, no matter how many applications you run simultanously
- (exceptions are raytracing, image processing and other extreme applications,
- i am talking here about things like office packs). for windows 3.1 this
- point is said to be somewhere at 24 MB. virtual memory and a big harddisk
- gives you infinite memory, and if you just found out that you need to start
- a third copy of DPaint and a forth of Cygnus ed, you wouldn't run into
- trouble if you just had virtual memory.
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- on the other hand, virtual memory is the natural enemy of realtime
- processing. because amiga operating system is the only system left on the
- marked (not counting atari) without virtual memory as default, you can do
- things with amigaos that are impossible on other systems. this makes the
- amiga computer of your choice for laser and lightshows, mesuring systems,
- games and other things where it would be a problem if the os stops
- everything and tries to load some pages.
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- dierk "chaos" ohlerich
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