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mikemc@macshack.com (Mike McCammant) wrote:

>In article <DKxzFK.2r6@eskimo.com>, G. Baldwin <drizzit@eskimo.com> wrote:
>>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?"

>Why would I want to turn off the swap file?  That would be stupid ;) It is 
>part of the operating system.  OS/2 is not really happy, nor is a *NIX
>based system without some form of virtual memory.

>>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.

>Let's just say "default installation".  I have never messed with the 
>swap file in Win95.  Also Ramdouble programs are a crock.

Only with Windows, they work great on the Mac (mainly because they
manage VM MUCH, MUCH better)

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