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- From: chaos@wiloyee.shnet.org
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCOM
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- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:58:15 GMT
-
- mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu wrote:
-
- : >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.
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- : >On my Amiga the Workbench screen *alone* is over a Mb, not to mention
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- you can't count screen memory only on amiga. if you count it on pc, you must
- allways add 1-2 mb to your os memory usage.
-
- the best part of amiga is it's very small use of screen memory.
- unfortunaltly, this is not needed in modern systems since screen memory
- doesn't really count any more.
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-
- dierk "chaos" ohlerich
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