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- In a message of 03 Feb 96 Stephan Schaem wrote to :
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- >> 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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- SS> 24mb? I would beleive 48meg if you plan to acually run 2 app or more.
- SS> like running a C compiler and a www browser, now starting a text
- SS> editor
- SS> and I bet you will swap like crazy :)
-
- I can run a LightWave rendition, NetScape FTP, editor and Fractal Painter
- all at the same time without swapping "like crazy". There's the occational
- swap, but if you take into account the massiveness of those applications I
- don't think that's unreasonable. I have 16 megs in my P133.
-
- This endless ranting of how poorly PC's manage their memory, how
- outrageously memory hungry they are, etc, can sometimes get out of hand,
- especially when the participating debaters obviously have never owned PC's.
- __
- __/// Michael Berg
- \\X/ mberg@datashopper.dk
-
- .. Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was
- written and another for which it wasn't.
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