Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: G. Baldwin
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:42

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Mike McCammant (mikemc@macshack.com) wrote:
: In article <DKuFyA.D52@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
: David Salvador Flores <dsf3g@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU> wrote:

: [snip]
: >.... even though 95 barely runs on a 486 with 8 megs.

: '95 runs fine on a 486-33 w/8 Meg of RAM.  As a matter of fact, it also runs
: the VC++ v2.2 IDE in 8M of ram just fine.  Not that I like Windows, but 
: you should at least have your facts straight.  

Turn off your swap file and see "How far DON'T you want to go today?"

If I had a large enough swap HDD, I could of done the rendering that 
was done with ToyStory with a 4MB system.  

Please state memory requirements with TRUE MEMORY, and not with VMM or 
RamDouble type programs.

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