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From: mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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Message-ID: <1991Feb1.031734.1976@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 1 Feb 91 03:17:34 GMT
References: <1991Jan20.042633.16661@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <42828@ut-emx.uucp> <18018@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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T: 64MB Amigas

In article <18018@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <42828@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>>In article <1991Jan20.042633.16661@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>>>I sure wish I could put 64MB of RAM on my AT&T 6300 like I can on my Amiga.
>
>>(Just curious, but does anyone out there have that much RAM installed?)
>
>I set up an A3000 with 16MB of motherboard Fast RAM, 2MB of Chip RAM, 32MB
>of Zorro III expansion RAM, and 2MB of Zorro II expansion RAM just for kicks
>once.  I didn't really have anything useful to do with all that memory, so I
>gave back most of the 4MB DRAMs, and I'm now back to the basic 10MB setup
>(8MB Fast, 2MB Chip) that I've found I can't use up in anything I normally do
>with my system.
>
>
>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>	"What works for me might work for you"	-Jimmy Buffett

I am definately crampped in 4MB or RAM, because I would like to make more
"resident" programs (i.e. ARexx servers).  I don't want to see these programs
limit themselves to a small (i.e. < 1MB) memory use, otherwise you can get
them all thrashing around on the disk from time to time.  I often wonder what
it would be like to have 64MB, but I also don't see the need for it - YET.
When 24-bit graphics are standard issue on the Amiga, it might make sense
to use a lot of RAM for layers (window buffers).  It might also be useful
to keep a bunch of digitized sound and video samples in RAM at once, too.

Last time I talked to Sam Dicker (author of Audio.device), he was working
at Apple, using their Cray to see what kind of user applications could make
use of such a powerful machine.  They figure that someday, a machine as
powerful as the Cray will be on everybody's desk.  For now, the Amiga is
the next best choice.  So what would you do with all that RAM?

You could have a lot of large lookup tables, a huge disk cache, and perhaps
some video/audio applications might require a lot of RAM.  Oh, yeah, then
you might be able to run Unix on it (until a couple of years from now it
still won't be enough RAM).