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- From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.063936.18089@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Ifi, University of Trondheim / AVH
- References: <714823281.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> <ewright.714853873@convex.convex.com> <1992Aug27.205714.13960@CS.ORST.EDU> <ewright.714956536@convex.convex.com> <STDKAP1.92Aug27224620@icarus.spc.uchicago.e <ewright.715459786@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 06:39:36 GMT
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- >>Windows effectively has no 640k barrier, and OS/2 cannot. Period.
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- I think I will just tell a story:
-
- I have a friend who is definitely not a Mac user. He works in a place
- where they produces maps, and they needed a system that could
- manipulate maps in 24 bit colour. The datafiles for producing
- these maps are about 20 - 60 MB in size, and they wanted to manipulate
- these maps with commercial drawing packages like Illustrator or
- Freehand or something similar. For speed they need to have all
- the data in RAM as they work.
-
- They set up a test which included a 50 Mz 486 and a NExT Station. After
- talking to me they also included a Quadra 700 (very reluctantly). All
- machines were equiped to handle 24 bit colour and with approx. 60-70
- MB RAM.
-
- The results:
- The Quadra and the NExT Station were about the same in speed, but the
- Quadra was very much cheaper(as far as I understood mainly because of the 24
- bit
- colour requirement)!
- The Windows machine couldn't handle the job at all because, as they said,
- when the datafiles were larger than 3-6 MB everything just stopped!
-
- This suggests to me a serious memory handling problem in Windows. So,
- theoretically
- the 640k barrier probably doesn't exist, but there is a difference between
- theory and praxis.
-
- Oh, by the way - they did buy the Quadra! Not because it was a Mac (in fact
- they
- tried as hard as they could not to buy the Mac), but because it was the only
- machine that could do the job within reasonable cost!
-
- Terje Rydland
-