Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!dege From: dege@cs.umn.edu (Dege Jeffrey Charles) Subject: Re: Virtual memory for Amiga! Message-ID: <1991Apr1.041901.24943@cs.umn.edu> Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. References: Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 04:19:01 GMT Lines: 23 In holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) writes: >In article sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) writes: >>Why shouldn't virtual RAM work on the Amiga? It works on the PC >>and Macintosh.... >Neither the PC nor the Macintosh multitask like the Amiga does. >Banking the virtual memory works just fine on a PC, since there is only >one program running in the machine, and the processor has no need to wildly >jump back and forth while switching between tasks. >But did you ever see Windows 3.0 on a 386 with not so much memory (the >one I used had "only" 2 MB) trying to get two programs running ? The harddisk >runs and runs and runs and runs all the time, and system performance degrades >noticeably. In a simple test of Windows 3.0 on a 2 Meg 386sx, a make under Windows took 1Hr and 38 minutes, while the same make under DOS took 4 minutes and change. Most of this seemd to be due to heavy disk swapping. -----------------------