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- From: monster@mbear.apana.org.au (Martin Ozolins)
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- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
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- References: <1992Dec29.170616.13059@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec29.173309.5562@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 08:26:40 PST
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- In article <1992Dec29.173309.5562@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- > Ray (rjc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
- > : >
- > : >Right. You think a 512KB Amiga (with no virtual memory, of course), could
- > : >ever run something like Word? FrameMaker? Quicken? Improv? Paradox?
- > : >Falcon 3? Ultima Underworld? Think again, denizen.
- > :
- > : Ever heard of overlays Jerry? Did you know that a very popular computer
- > : used to run applications of this calibre using only 140k more ram than
- > : the Amiga?
- > :
- >
- > Overlays are cute (if slow) for squeezing lots of code into a small space,
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- SO is VM. VM also slows down any program that uses it due to disk access.
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- VM is nice, but if you have enough RAM then you do not need it.
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