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In article <HEYES.92Aug11130300@dadev.cebaf.gov> heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov (Graham Heyes) writes:
>I am thinking about buying a 68030 accelerator card,
>the company selling it are tryining to sell sell me
>"compact virtual 3.0" for $79 as part of the package.
>They tell me that it costs over $100 when bought
>seperately. 
>
>What is "compact virtual 3.0" ? 
>
>I thought virtual memory was part of system 7.0 and
>didn't need any third party software to work.
>
(The following is just guesswork, but it's probably true :-)
I'll bet "Compact Virtual" is the new version of Virtual from Connectix,
updated to run under Sys 7.  Why would you want this?  Well, as I heard:
*  You can run it in a "compact" mode, where the disk buffer is only as
big as [virtual mem - real mem] and performance is comparable to Sys 7.
*  or, you can use the normal mode, which takes up lots of disk space but
is faster than the virtual memory feature in Sys 7.
So, if either of these options sound appealing, I'd go for it.  I ran
Virtual under System 6 and thought it was great.

Derek
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