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- From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.093108.757@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Jul26.191201.26801@wam.umd.edu> <1992Jul26.224229.26193@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 09:31:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- > Rumors about this German-written virtual memory system have been filtering
- >around the net for over a year, but nothing solid ever seems to come about
- >from it.
-
- It's not a German-written program, the authors are Swiss, however
- its is being distributed by a German company ;-)
- The program is available in Europe since July 20th and will be
- available in the U.S. real soon now.
-
- >really does exist and works as advertized, why doesn't the company at least
- >develop a crippleware demo of the vmem system that can be freely distributed,
- >as proof that it really exists?
-
- Most limitations of a demo version could be removed by software pirates.
- It's not easy to create a usable demo version of a virtual memory
- system...
-
- >Until the company behind this product does
- >something to show that this thing is not vaporware, I will remain solidly
- >skeptical.
-
- Take my word: The program exists and is available in every good computer
- shop in Germany, and it *works* (I'm using it right now on my A3000)
-
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- Martin A. Blatter blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
- -- Rich Kulawiec
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