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From: stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga coverage in Byte
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.050210.17699@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 05:02:10 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???

Can't tell exactly from the article.  To quote:

  [after describing a $4000 one-channel time-base corrector/frame sync]
  There are other extra-cost factors that I'll cover as I go along, but the
  most important is memory:  The Toaster documentation laments those users
  who have "only 5 megabytes of memory" and recommends 7 MB or more.  It's
  not kidding; don't even bother trying to run the Toaster software in a
  3-MB machine.

Steve Wootton
stevew@ecn.purdue.edu
stevew@pur-ee.uucp
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