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From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga World review about A3000
Message-ID: <949@mpirbn.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 90 19:21:23 GMT
References: <18226@snow-white.udel.EDU> <11287@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <11287@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>The bottom line is, there's lots of expansion address space, and you're not
>going to use it all up in the next few years.  I'm waiting for someone to
>come along with an actual use for more than 18 or so megabytes, though I
>suppose it'll happen.  I can remember back when 32K seemed like lots of memory.

Good ole days. We are using several DECstations equipped with 24Meg. Since
the UNIX kernel and X-windows consumes about 4Meg and our applications code
will use about 2.5 Meg we can use 17.5 for our data. And we have to swap
data in and out of the machine.
Aren't we doing image processing ? :-}

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