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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:21:51 GMT
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- In <1992Aug28.201740.18893@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
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- >I don't use Ventura publisher, I use Pagemaker. So I don't think I'll call
- >Ventura. But as I stated above, I have 32 bit flat memory, i.e. 4GB without
- >the tricks etc. not *kilobytes* but *gigabytes*.
-
- I don't question whether you can stuff 4GB into your machine. The
- question is, can you actually address that much memory? And the
- answer is, no, at least not reliably. To give you an example, I
- just tried opening Windows Paintbrush and got an error message
- saying there wasn't enough memory to run the application. The only
- other program I had running at the time was Xvision, with a few X
- Windows open. So I checked the Program Manager to see how much
- free memory I had, and it told me 8.8 Meg. Almost 9 Megabytes of
- free memory, and I can't even open this tiny little paint program!
- 640K barrier. Bam! This is not atypical of the performance I
- experience every day. Although MS Windows claims to be a multitasking
- environmental, the number of programs I can actually have running is
- severely limited, not by physical RAM but by Intel's bizarre memory
- architecture. I repeat, not Microsoft, but *Intel's.*
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