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Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: >:
: >: Why must
: >: I have a Pentium with 100MHz to perform my tasks as fast as on my
: >: Amiga with a 68040/28MHz? Very curious...
: >
: >You needn't have a P100; a 486/33 will do quite nicely.
:
: I doubt that seriously. I've seen WinCrap on a DX66 with EIDE and a VL gfx 
: card.
:

Me too.  It blew away a 68040-based Amiga.

: >:
: >: BTW, Unix runs smooth in 16MB of Ram, AmigaOS in 4MB. That's more than
: >: "some memory", isn't it? 
: >
: >It would be, if your numbers were accurate.  They aren't.
:
: Tell me your's please.
:

I've seen Linux running on a 2MB PC, with 850KB free.

: >:
: >: System performance depends on the data throughput. The lesser the OS swaps
: >: the faster it is. That's one great advantage of AmigaOS over other OS's.
: >
: >When I run out of physical RAM, I'd much rather have my OS swap than stop.
:
: You will run much later out of RAM on an Amiga.
:

Not if you run similar apps on both machines.

: Juergen Wahlmann 
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Jerry J. Shekhel
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