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- From: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.org (Wayne Summer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
- Message-ID: <wayne.01rh@amtower.spacecoast.org>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:17:51 GMT
- 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> <1992Jul27.101544.3547@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Reply-To: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.orgX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Jul27.101544.3547@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- > 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
- > 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."
-
- Maybe the memory hog finally got stuffed!!!!
- --
- Wayne
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