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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: BeBox Is Here. Listen Closely ESCO
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 23:20:04 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Michael Berg (mberg@datashopper.dk) wrote:
- : In a message of 03 Feb 96 Stephan Schaem wrote to :
-
- : >> 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.
-
- I have 16megs too, but when I switch app menu / option a very non
- responsive. I hate to wait, and running IE (I dumped netscape long
- ago.. and IE use less mem and is maybe 10/20 second faster to load)
- and C compiler and when I swicth the w95 menu are sticky, the requester
- seem to open and think... etc... my system usually show ~50meg of memory
- in use.
-
- : 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.
-
- PC running windows just are resource pig... I guess people talk about
- it alot because it is so outrageous. All I know is, the computer
- industrie do not want an efficient OS, MS provide what they want.
-
- Just try and turn Vmem off, and see what your w95 PC can do!
-
- Stephan
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