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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
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Date: 4 Mar 91 18:33:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <9833@uwm.edu>
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In article <9833@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1991Mar1.024207.29305@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, by stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton):
>> - System requirements
>>     Amiga 2000 or 2500 with 7 MB of memory, an Amiga 1080-series or
>>     compatible monitor, and an empty video slot
>Does it really require 7 meg of memory?  That's something I didn't know.  I
>mean, I knew it took a lot of memory, but I didn't know it took THAT much.
>Is that BEFORE modules (tracing, painting) are loaded, or is that DVI with
>both loaded???

5MB is enough to run the switcher, DVE, and the bare bones of Lightwave.
To really use the Toaster however requires about 7MB. Without this much
memory you will sacrifice motion removal for the frame capture, much
of the functionality of Toaster Paint, and all but the most rudimentary
images from Lightwave.
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