On 4 Apr 2005 10:55:42 +0200, Wouter de Waal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > >It's a very elegant solution. Because WOW16 is a small program of just > >a few megabytes, you can run it in 2 ways. > > Liam, you win. This is the most subtle sarcasm I've > seen in a long time.
[Chuckle] I like to think so. But in this case, as I'm sure you've spotted, I wasn't being. My smallest NT machine is my old NT 3.51 server - which has only 16MB RAM. (8MB on the planar - what lesser manufacturers call the motherboard - and 8MB on an IBM expansion card, and thus dramatically slower, despite a 32-bit MCA slot.) On it, 2MB is a fair bit of RAM, but even so, NT 3.51 is quite usable and I'd rather use it than Windows 3.1 - even though Windows for Workgroups really flies along on this machine. But we're comparing against Mac OS X. I tend to feel that versions of OS X before 10.2 were more trouble than they were worth, so let's say Jaguar or above. (I've run 10.1; it wasn't great.) I've run Jaguar on a 400MHz G3-upgraded PowerMac 7600/133 with 384MB and on a Beige G3 with 768MB - both pretty low-end machines for OS X. OS X will run in 64MB but it's unusably slow. In 128MB it crawls along. In 256MB it's OK and in 384MB or more it's pleasant to use. 256MB is a reasonable baseline; that's the amount of RAM where the OS isn't thrashing the disk and can run 1 or 2 small apps without paging much. This is also the exact same baseline RAM requirement for Windows 2000 or Windows XP, the only recent enough versions of Windows to be worth bothering with. (NT4 was OK, but it's 2005: I want power management, I want USB & Firewire, I want Plug&play.) And I reckon that on a machine with a quarter to third of a gigabyte of RAM, a program that takes 2-3MB can fairly be called a small, efficient app. It's certainly a lot smaller than a full copy of an OS that will just about run in 64MB, which is a fair description of MacOS 9.2.2... Now, back to my Classic II. What are the steps I need to take to get it running TCP/IP over my Dayna SCSI/Port under System 6.0.8L? :-) -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
