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- From: laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193125.18927@uni-paderborn.de>
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- References: <2310@forty2.physik.unizh.ch> <1992Jul26.191201.26801@wam.umd.edu> <1992Jul26.224229.26193@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <1992Jul27.024218.17053@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:31:25 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul26.224229.26193@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >>In <1992Jul26.191201.26801@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
- >>>Where, pray tell, can it be found? Is it commercial or freely
- >>>distributable? From what you describe, it may just be a functional
- >>>solution. More info, please!!
- >>
- >>It's commercial, we just ran a test with a 2Gig Harddisk on A3000
- >>and A2500/30 machines. Markus Illenseer will post a summary this
- >>week.
-
- > 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.
-
- >>Regards,
- >>--
- >>Michael van Elst
- >>UUCP: universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
- >>Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
- >> "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
-
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >-----------------------------------------------------
-
- Marc...there is a simple answer....IT'S OUT AND CAN BE BOUGHT BY EVERY USER
- ..so it's not vapore anymore...Or do you call all non-US products vaporware
- because you can't get them in US ?:-B
-
- Regards....
-
- --
- Ralph Schmidt laire@uni-paderborn.de
- University of Paderborn (Germany)
-