At 07:02 PM 10/24/00 +0200, you wrote:
>If the program says it requires
>some ammount it's often possible to run it anyway, or one should buy that
>extra RAM (it isn't *that* expensive - if you can afford programs that
>require so much you can often afford the RAM to use them).
Once more, when running the 32bit multitasking w9x series, I again
recommend that you do not turn off your swap file unless you have the
confidence to fix it should the system be unworkable as a result. Yes,
more RAM is always useful, although more than 128MB is excessive by most
standards and not often used. 32 is the minimum for comfort, especially on
w98, less will slow you down and use your hard drive swap file
excessively. 64 is what I recommend to people just starting out. It's
more than you usually need but enough to take on larger jobs without
slowing down, you can push the envelope a bit more. I like to run many
tasks at once, letting a page load on the www while I check a message or
two, keeping various utilities open and running, maintaining an IRC
presence, etc.
> >still, if you are doing something, like writing a large book, you may need
> >more than that and then windows will write the portions of the document
> >several pages away from your working place into the swap as it couldn't
> >hold it in RAM.
>
>One could also put each chapter in a new file, that would make it easier to
>rewrite portions since it would be faster to find the specific part.
I would not like to have it spread out that way, I like to scroll about in
a document. I do miss the mac wordperfect trick of splitting the window to
give two separately scrollable views of a single document, however.
> >I have a friend who works with large and complex graphics files
>
>What is he doing? Special effects for movies?
>//Bernie
No, he is a beta tester for corel's newest corel draw, and a set designer,
he builds the sets with complex multi-layered objects on his hard drive,
then prints off various parts of them to create the 3 dimensional maquettes
(models) of the finished stage as well as the blue prints they use to build
it. He hates sitting and waiting for the computer to catch up.
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