Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs!dpg From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: More than 4 Meg ?? Message-ID: <1991Jun6.104706.24529@cs.nott.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jun 91 10:47:06 GMT References: <91154.141443SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET> <1991Jun4.112631.10649@cs.nott.ac.uk> Organization: Nottingham University Lines: 15 In article gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: >[stuff about 'what to do with >4meg' deleted] >Try CScheme --- it takes 2.5 Mb (itself!) just to see the intro text. If you >actually want to *do* anything (even in 4Mb) you have to forget about MGR, et >al. and run it direct from the DeskTop (gasp). I think GNU SmallTalk is similar. It does seem strange that Atari limited the machine like this. Surely it wouldn't have been much more work to allow the MMU to address the full 16 meg that the 68k can? At least it's better than the Amiga A500 (1 meg max!). -- /* 'Grave' Dave Gymer --------- Internet: dpg@Cs.Nott.AC.UK *\ +* 42 St Marys Park, Louth, Lincolnshire, LN11 0EF, England *+ +* Olivier's Law: "Experience is something you don't get *+ \*-------------------------- until just after you need it." */