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On 12 Sep 1995 05:25:50 GMT Jerry Shekhel (jerry@cybercom.net) wrote:
> 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.

That would be a very magic 486/33.

> : 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.

True. Amiga OS runs smoothly in as little as 2 MB. The HP Unix workstations
we have at DTU have 128 MB of physical RAM and still keep swapping all the
time.

> : 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.

The Amiga OS doesn't stop if it runs out of RAM (it doesn't run out of RAM
often anyway, but that is not the point). And if you want to use virtual
memory with Amiga OS, then you can do so if your Amiga has a MMU.

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