Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!unsvax!uns-helios!alfter From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS/OS et al Message-ID: <2170@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> Date: 17 Oct 90 23:25:13 GMT References: <0093E3490C99F300.00000111@dcs.simpact.com> <1990Oct17.014216.14617@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU Reply-To: alfter@uns-helios.uucp (SCOTT ALFTER) Organization: Univ of Nevada System Computing Services - Las Vegas Lines: 22 In article jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) writes: >resides above the first 16M of memory. Besides, who needs a system >with >16MB memory? Hmm...UNIX types who might want to run a bunch of processes at once? You shouldn't be trying to dictate limitations like that; it's the lack of those limits that has made the Apple II what it is. BTW, I've worked with a machine with more than 16 megs. The CS class I took last semester used a Sequent Symmetry mainframe with 52 megs of RAM. (I will concede that the memory was split among six 386s, though, so each processor would have less than 16 megs tied to it, but who's watching? :-) ) Speed might be one reason: real memory will always be faster than virtual memory. If you think 52 megs is a lot of memory, I think the Connection Machine has either 2 or 4 _giga_bytes--I'm not too sure which. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Alfter _/_ / v \ Apple II: Internet: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu ( ( the power to be your best! GEnie: S.ALFTER \_^_/