Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!agora!nesbbx!billsey From: nesbbx!billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: MegaMac Message-ID: <19434367.ARN01c5@nesbbx.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 91 20:56:07 GMT References: <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Jun6.001939.28047@milton.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: nesbbx!billsey@agora.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: NES, Inc. Lines: 44 In article <1991Jun6.001939.28047@milton.u.washington.edu>, Steve Poole writes: > In article <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Andy Patrizio writes: >>Secondly, what in the world do you need 128 Meg of RAM for? Even UNIX doesn't >>suck up that much memory. >> >>It sounds to me like a computer version of the Spruce Goose. Big, ugly, awkward >> and useless. > > Big? 16MB SIMMs really aren't all that large. Ugly and awkward? Huh? Actually, since 16Mbit chips are still only available in sample quantities, a 16MB SIMM is going to be quite large. It'll require a full 32 4Mbit chips to be installed on it. Even with TSOPs and putting chips on both sides of the board, you're taking up double the room of most SIMM modules. My guess is they do this in a 32 bit wide package, and the SIMMs are double the normal height. Mount it all into an angled socket, and you will probably have to leave a inch or so between sockets. But it should fit that way. > How can you support a progressive platform like the Amiga when you have such > a braindamaged regressive view? Sounds like you wear computer bigotry > blinders. > > Gee, just a few years ago all I needed was 16K... > > Ever thrown 32 bit color images around? Done four color prepress work? > Used a really big and deep virtual desktop? VM won't cut it. Big disk > caches? RAM drives? USELESS? > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- INTEL 80x86: Just say NOP -- Internet: stevep@wrq.com -- AOL: Spoole -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I actually agree that there's always room for more memory... I remember when I bought my 1000 and had to think twice before deciding to buy the extra 256K. After all, how would I ever use that much memory? Even figuring it was 16 bits wide instead of 8 like my 64, I shouldn't even need more than 256K... Now I feel constrained by the 9M in my 2000, and tend to do most things on the 3000, at least partially because of the extra memory... -Bill Seymour nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com ***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist NES*BILL ***** Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. NAG BBS NES BBX BBS Home Sometimes (503)281-8153 (503)246-9311 (503)656-7393 (503)640-9337 (503) 640-0842