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- From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
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- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.041526.1212@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 04:15:26 GMT
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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.*
-
- OOPS, wrong again. The 640kB barrier is in DOS, not the Intel hardware
- with a 32-bit OS, in my case OS/2, this limit *does not exist*. I know.
- In my computer right now there is 8MB of ram, and I assure you I need
- no tricks to access that memory. As a matter of fact, I have dynamic
- virtual memory that is part of the OS and will allow me to easily exceed
- the amount of true memory in my system, without having a part of my hard
- disk eaten up permantly.
- Use facts in your arguments, not BS.
-
- --Carl
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- Carl W. Price * * Work keeps us from three evils: *
- Computer Engineering Student * * boredom, vice, and need. *
- Oregon State University * * *
- pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu * * ---Voltaire *
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