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Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: David Corn
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 17:51
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c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:


>A while ago I was using a 7100 with 16MB RAM running _only_ Photoshop
>and nothing else, with no extensions (I rebooted with extensions
>disabled).  Not only did I notice that the frame buffer updates are

Use the normal extensions, and use a 96k or 128k disk cache.  Either
use 1M+Real RAM (17M) of virtual memory, or use RAMDoubler.  

Photoshop -REQUIRES- at -least- 16M on a PowerMac.  Loading a big
image will significantly increase that amount.

>slow, but when I used Photoshop's brush, it skipped and jerked around
>like crazy!  On the other hand, xpaint running under Linux on a 486/33

The problem is RAM.  Add more, and I think you'll be very happy with
PS. 

What version of PS did the PM run?
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