Monday, December 27, 1999, 9:56:45 AM, tracer wrote:
> Same with having that silly onboard video using system ram.
Funny thing is take a look at what AGP boards use for their frame buffer.
;)
> In my own case the main reason I had a lot of ram was internet, to
> make use of the lousy and expensive capcity I had, I went for enough
> ram to be able to run double/tripple ftps up and down, have a news
> reader running and my mail and if required a mpeg movie for my son.
Gah, all of that is what, 16Mb? Oh, wait, sorry, thinking Linux again.
SLRN, newsreader, ~2Mb.
lftp, ftp client, ~1.5Mb (can do multiple connections)
MP3 in X, 12Mb.
> Mainly price as it was very difficult to sell extra ram at prices it
> was a few years ago. Enough ram could double the pc price.
Yeah, years ago. I was still in that mindset until I got my C400a so I
could keep up with the games. 64Mb of RAM w/tax and S&H cost me a whopping
$89. That is when RAM prices were (are?) supposed to be "high".
> 98 needs about 64 MINIMUM to run and from what I heard about windows
> 2000 it needs at least 256. Also in my experience, the faster the machine
> the more ram you need to get rid of that hard disk bottle neck Steve
> mentoned.
If that is the case it is completely unacceptable. Jeez, I can get Linux
to boot and run doing much more work than Windows in under 2Mb w/o touching
swap.
Hell, the most useful computing device I bought recently for real *work*
was my Palm IIIe with a whopping 2Mb.
What is MS' problem?
> I had a small scsi drive (one of those fast ones) just for swapping...
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63348 60396 2952 19828 21664 18840
-/+ buffers/cache: 19892 43456
Swap: 132072 3100 128972
I just avoid the problem. I think the 3.1Mb of swap is from the PMMail
list I host hammering my system. If I limited exim to 25 copies instead of 50
I'd not touch swap at all.
> you couldnt get the proper ram?? (g)
That was the proper RAM. The AWE32 had two SIMM slots for an expanded
memory buffer for synth sound files.
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