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Article #16Lazy coding (was: Is this group really for Commodore 64 users?)
From: Sam Foit
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:01
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:01
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Andy J Partridge wrote: > I still can't fathom why my Winword95 directory needs to be > 19 megs, and why I need a DX4 to run it at an acceptable > speed..... It gets worse. My machine at work has 32 megs RAM in order to minimize disk thrashing during compile times (or that's what they told me when I got the machine - I didn't argue!). Since the weather is starting to get bad here in Minnesota, I thought it would be nice to work at home a few days a week, so I took 16 megs RAM to put in my home machine. The drop from 32 megs to 16 megs RAM here at work was a NOTICEABLE difference just doing standard things in Windows 95, like using my mail reader with no other windows open! Now I am an advocate of Windows 95, don't get me wrong, but what the HELL is going on that is using more than 16 megs RAM to avoid disk swapping?
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