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- From: jlarke@css.itd.umich.edu (Jason Larke)
- Subject: Re: Mathematica question
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- References: <whitmore.712441064@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> <55546@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:06:33 GMT
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- In article <55546@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
- >In article <whitmore.712441064@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>
- >whitmore@iastate.edu (Kurt D Whitmore) writes:
- >> Don't try getting by with virtual memory Mma runs real slow.
- >> 8 megs is the absolute min with system 7 (the current shipping software)
- >> This will give you about 6 megs to allocate to mma, but no other
- >programs can
- >> be run in the back ground. Dont quote me but I believe the si has a meg
- >soldered on the motherboard so when you get eight 1 meg simms you actually
- >have 9 megs of RAM, that would be ideal.
- >
- >Even a 6 Mb partition is inadequate if you want to do much, particularly
- >if animated graphics are involved.
- >
- Just one correction- the IIsi has *four* SIMM slots, and you'll need
- 4 2-meg SIMMS to get 9meg total. For Mathematica, think about going to
- 17 meg. I costs about $500 or so, but should set you free from the
- RAM-allocation blues for a while. Whereas even 9 meg would soon be iffy,
- the way Microsoft writes apps. And the way Apple writes system code.
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