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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.101544.3547@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:15:44 GMT
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- In <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. For all the rumors and good reports from German Amiga users, the
- >thing remains totally vaporware for anybody outside of Europe. If this thing
- >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? Until the company behind this product does
- >something to show that this thing is not vaporware, I will remain solidly
- >skeptical.
-
- It's rather Swiss-written and you may remain skeptical. Fact is that it
- did work stable. In how far VMEM is a performance problem (and this implementation
- in particular) has to be determined.
-
- BTW, ADPro crashed with more than 512Megs virtual memory available.. dunno why.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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