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none@none.com (Max Polk) wrote:


>If I were you, I would get at *LEAST* 128MB.  That's what I have at work, 
>and I definitely don't run too many things at once and try swapping 
>between each of them regularly or else I *STILL* get too much disk 
>swapping.  It's okay to run lots of things -- just as long as they never 
>get called upon to redraw (minimize what you don't use), or to run (don't 
>switch to other apps or else JBuilder gets swapped out).

Hear hear. When I recently upgraded my m/c, I was lucky enough to have
a bit of budget left over, so I decided to really take the mickey and
go for 256MB. That's probably a tad excessive, but my old m/c had 96MB
and it wasn't very happy.
>
>I hate it too.  If only we had Linux!

Ah, but then you'd have XFree86. Have you ever tried to configure
XFree86? I'm about to move to a third graphics card in an effort to
find one that can  a) do something more than 320x200 (!) and b) go
back into text mode afterwards without falling over in a heap. Don't
get me wrong - Linux can do wonderful things, but the graphics system
ain't there yet.
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