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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCO
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 01:14:12 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Michael Berg (mberg@datashopper.dk) wrote:
- : In a message of 07 Feb 96 Stephan Schaem wrote to me:
-
- : SS> I have 16megs too, but when I switch app menu / option a very non
- : SS> responsive. I hate to wait, and running IE (I dumped netscape long
- : SS> ago.. and IE use less mem and is maybe 10/20 second faster to load)
-
- : 10-20 *seconds* ? Sheez, what do you have in that PC anyway, a 386? I can
- : load up NetScape 2.0 in just under 4 seconds.
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- A 75mhz p5...
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- : SS> PC running windows just are resource pig... I guess people talk about
- : SS> it alot because it is so outrageous.
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- : Well, I must own some magic PC then, because here it really isn't a problem
- : at all :)
- : __
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- Dunno, maybe something is wrong. system monitor say 17.5 meg is allocated
- when I just boot. starting wordpad (Cant use textpad that load
- instantly since it cant load 'big' document >64K) raise this to over 20meg...
- So win95 need 20meg of ram to run a shity text editor to edit file >64k.
- BTW text pad take a long time to load. ~ 6 second.
-
- My system usuallly need ~30meg to compile little things, and If I run
- netscape I get up quick to >50meg alocated. 50meg for a compiler env &
- a net browser is ALOT , no?
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- I only reserved 10meg on the HD for the swap file, so sometime the HD
- dont have enought space to store 40meg file... so my aplication crash
- and burn.
-
- Stephan
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