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From: mouse@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Dhanapong Saengrussamee-University of North Texas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: SUMMARY & more questions: Virtual 2.0 & IIcx
Message-ID: <29528.269dd714@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 14:13:40 GMT
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Hi there!  It is this crazy pants again.

Thanks for all the responses on my Virtual 2.0 and IIcx query.  Got about a
dozen messages.  Here's the brief summary.

Virtual 2.0 will give the IIcx (14 - (the number of slot in use)) MB by
reserved the same amount of that much spaces on your harddisk.  So for most
people (that's one slot for video) you'll have 13 MB of RAM.  Of all the
responses that I got, one complain about the slower speed than normal RAM and
the disk access during Virtual-Swap.  Others do not notice this?  Or speed is
irrelavent?  Also no report about conflict....

MacWeek on July 10th has a review on this and found that there're problems
with several programs--but did not state any names.  They also mention the
speed problem when Virtual do the 'swapping'.

Well....  Is the delay noticable?  How about incompatible that MacWeek
mentioned, did you encounter any?  What about the REAL RAM - does it matter how
much REAL RAM one has installed in the machine?  What's the minimum of REAL RAM
has to be installed?

As usual, please e-mail to me and I will post more summary to the net.

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