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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga/NeXT flames (Was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state...)
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Date: 14 Apr 91 01:35:29 GMT
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In article <1524@ewu.UUCP> mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce) writes:

   I don't want virtual memory on the Amiga, because that would mean that I 
   would have to buy a bigger harddisk, and it would slow down my apps.  I have
   three megs of RAM and a 44meg syquest, VM would screwup my setup and push 
   the Amiga past my finacial capabilities.

Why does that mean you would need a bigger hard disk?  Apple is giving
its user virtual memory, and their basic configuration is 2MB of RAM
and a 40MB hard drive.  Shouldn't the option at least be available?
After all disk prices are getting cheap.  A 105MB drive can be had for
$400, and I've seen 660MB drives for $1500.

-Mike