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From: SYSPMZT@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More than 4 Meg ??
Message-ID: <91156.122735SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:27:35 GMT
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 <1991Jun4.112631.10649@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Jun4.112631.10649@cs.nott.ac.uk>, dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
says:
>
>
>Question is, what would you do with more than 4 meg on an ST running TOS (or
>MiNT). I've yet to exhaust 4 meg (even with GCC, MGR, and BASH. Emacs coming
>soon... :-)
>--

Question used to be 'what would you do with more than 128K?'

I'm running Neodesk, a 512K Ram disk, Ed_Hak, Neo_Desk CLI, Dr. T's KCS Omega
Level II with Tiger, MT32, FB01, and TX81Z patch editors, Song Editor and
Copyist loaded. Soon I'll be running XOR with modules for a CZ1 and a Korg 707.
Rumor has it (been meaning to look into the doc) that I can run *any* GEM
program from in Dr. T's multi-programming environment, so that I can get
to Degas and my backgammon program (got to have a little fun sometimes).  I'm
also planning to retry DCSTUFFER (had a problem with an old version of MACCEL3)
so that I can load Breakout (yeah, I know it's silly) and Othello.  And maybe
I'll even try Cal50 again, though it was doing very strange things last time
I tried (but that was also under the old MACCEL3).  And I haven't even started
working with samples...

Incidentally, I keep the machine booted 24 hours (long load time to get just
what I'm using now going, let alone what I'm planning).

So I'm planning to use up my 4 meg in the not so distant future.  Jeez, give
a user a few meg and they want a gig...

Phil Z