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In article <2hdvri$pon@corax.udac.uu.se>, m93kma@tdb.uu.se (Kristofer Maad)
writes:
|> Robin Chytil (robin@robin.lausanne.sgi.com) wrote:
|> : .....so go for a R4400 @150MHz Indy ! About 135 MIPS for $15500 (with
|> 500MB
|> : HD, 32MB RAM) 
|>       ^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> Good luck. A friend of mine working on Image Analysis (or whatever it's
|> called in English) here at Uppsala University (Sweden), says that their
|> Indy needs 48MB to boot at all. And that it can't run much more than a
|> couple of standard programs even then. And that opening a shell window
|> takes 5MB memory. How many shells can you open on an Amiga 4000/040
|> before the memory runs out? Just curious. ;) (Even my A1200 w/ 40MHz
|> '030,
|> 40MHz '882 and a total of 6MB memory could open up quite a few, I
|> suspect.)

Hold on : Indy can boot but cannot "work" with 16MB. OK. This is going to
be fixed with the next OS (this is the major improvement in this OS: it
will need much less RAM). You could suuggest your friend to remove
IndigoMagic and install 4sight, waiting for IRIX 5.2. This works pretty
well.
FYI : with 5MB I was able to open 13 shells. I know you can open much more
windows on an Amiga, but these are 800x600 8bit windows, and it's running
UNIX. UNIX is 25 years old, not 10 years old.
|> 
|> : Sorry but I couldn't resist, the price/performance ratio is a little
|> bit
|> : better than for Amiga. 
|> 
|> Not in the low-end graphics market. Try a Video Toaster and feel the
|> difference in your wallet!

First of all tell these ^@#@$# Newtek guys to release a PAL version, and
not a NTSC version with a NTSC to PAL converter at the end.

|> --
|> Name:   Kristofer Maad    |
|> Snail:  Karlsrog. 1:93    |  "The satisfaction in making a
|> 'crash-proof'
|>         752 38 Uppsala    |   system screw up completely almost makes
|> Phone:  018-52 15 08      |   it worthwile."  /Kris
|> E-Mail: m93kma@tdb.uu.se  |

Robin
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