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From: marc@uni-paderborn.de (Marc Gumbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: How many MBytes would _you_ recommend?
Summary: How much memory does a ST need to be a decent computer?
Keywords: Memory Upgrade, MBytes, Emacs, GCC, G++, MiNT, mgr
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.190859.16688@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 11 Jun 91 19:08:59 GMT
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In order to get all the nice stuff running, that is available 
nowadays for the ST (I own a good ol' 1986 520 ST+),
how much memory would you recommend me to add to my 1 MB?

The "nice stuff" mentioned above would include Gnu stuff
(Emacs, gcc, g++, gdb [Is there gdb for the ST?]), and MiNT, 
mgr, bash. Anything important I missed?

I really like my ST for what it is, namely a good typewriter. 
But I would like to be able to do some decent C hackery at home
and have my favourite tool (Emacs) around. I know the ST is slow,
but I can live with that. I don't have the money to replace my
ST with a state-of-the-art ?86 AT with some Unix.

Or does anyone think it's not worth it? Should I better throw
my ST out of the window (e.g. keep on just using it as a 
typewriter-calendar-addressbook-videogame-terminal-thingy)?

Any comments welcome,
Marc
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