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From: zark@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steven M Kosloske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 7 Jun 91 21:47:18 GMT
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In article <5377.284f7525@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (P'relan) writes:
>In article <49969@ut-emx.uucp>, awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>> I think you don't know what you are talking about.  7.0 runs just fine on
>> a Mac Plus with 2 meg.  (Well, I guess "lots" wrt memory is relative.)
>
>It does?  7.0 took 1086K of RAM on our SE/30 *before* we installed any init's
>or da's.  That would leave you with less than a megabyte of RAM on your 2 MB
>setup and you can't run much with that...  I'm really glad we're getting another
>4 megabytes of RAM because we wouldn't be able to do our normal work without it.
>At home, I'm staying with 6.0.5 because I can't afford to lose the RAM that
>7.0 requires.
>
I guess it all depends on your definition of "normal work".  I have a Plus
with 2.5MB of RAM, and and have 1300K of RAM free with System 7.  I
couldn't run PageMaker and Word at the same time, or even Word and Excel at
the same time, but for *my* normal work, it's fine.  I can use THINK C,
Word, Excel, PageMaker, Resedit, ZTerm all fine, in some cases I can have 2
programs loaded at once.  I think my computer with System 7 is just as
usable as before.

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