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- From: babbage@dmu.ac.uk (Babbage)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 15:42:04 GMT
- Organization: De Montfort University
- Message-ID: <4dj5cc$iim@macondo.dmu.ac.uk>
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- > 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.
- ->5 times =:)
- > 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).
- yeh
- and after you load lots of utils (which everyone will)
- on the be then that will put its mem usage up even more :)
- > 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.
- hmm
- ive heard its gunan take more than you think dude
- another case for a 16meg min ram recomended machine anyway!
-