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- From: ovep@kih.no (Ove Tro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.141017.20206@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:10:17 GMT
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- In article <BzKMB3.19v@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- |> If I wanted a Nintendo, I would buy a Nintendo. In today's lingo a
- |> "computer" is something with a monitor, hard drive and 2MB of RAM.
- |>
- |> An A500/A600 is a toy.
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- That depends on what you use it for.
- I have friends with 486's that are SO proud of the great games
- they have, and they miss no opportunity to tell how fast they are.
- (Game machines... Toys...)
- I also know people who use their PC's to program C or Pascal or whatever.
- (Developers tools... Serious machines...)
- Still, with their MegaBlazing AssKicking HyperFast PowerMachines,
- do they have much RAM free for DOS-progs ?? Hardly 630kB !!
- And that's after using loadhi or something like it to put those
- awful TSR-programs up in the ex.mem, if possible.
- And being careful not to use any drivers that uses the same interrupt-
- addresses...
-
- Take an A600HD (with 2MB ram, if you want to...)
- Load the WorkBench, and look at the memory free that is displayed.
- (Or, if you want it REAL serious, don't load the workbench, then you
- don't have to look at the toy-icons and toy-windows :-)
- I guess the mem available should be around 1.8MB continuous RAM.
- That's almost 3 times the mem avail. under MS-DOS (without cheating)...
- TOY MY ASS!!!
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