🚀 go-pugleaf

 <43bp68$on2@unidhp.uni-c.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: kalypso.cybercom.net
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: xlink.net comp.sys.powerpc:65578 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30490 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:80026 comp.os.os2.advocacy:162597 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:141922 comp.sys.intel:61451

Rask Lambertsen (gc948374@tycho.gbar.dtu.dk) wrote:
: >
: > You needn't have a P100; a 486/33 will do quite nicely.
:
: That would be a very magic 486/33.
:

Nah, any run-of-the-mill 486/33 with a decent local bus graphics card.

: >
: > 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.
:

So?  Does that change the fact that *some* versions of UNIX run happily in
2MB?

: >
: > 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).
:

It *stops* allowing you to run more programs.  And who knows what an individual
program will do when the machine starts failing allocation requests?  Many
will die horrible deaths.

:
: And if you want to use virtual
: memory with Amiga OS, then you can do so if your Amiga has a MMU.
:

Sure, there are tacked on, afterthought solutions.  For *some* Amigas.
That work *some* of the time, from what I hear in this newsgroup.

: | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk>, <e9864029@ebar.dtu.dk> |
--
Jerry J. Shekhel
jerry@cybercom.net