Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jb10320 From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple IIGS's Memory Limit Message-ID: <1991Jun30.091626.6308@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 09:16:26 GMT Article-I.D.: ux1.1991Jun30.091626.6308 References: <1991Jun30.045113.11106@mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis ) writes: > Why you'd want to? The same reasons anyone would want to on a //e: >what you're given isn't enough. When you put 8 megs up against practical >applications, it's a small amount. There are computers in Japan that have >over 4 gigabytes of RAM (I'll get exact figures later). I'm sure they're >complaining of not having enough, too. What if you want to digitize large >amounts of sound and video? 8 megs runs out quick. So you add more and >bank switch. It's easy to do if you're careful about the whole mess.. The IIgs isn't a //e- even though the hardware has been described as a '//e on steroids', because of the '816s extended instruction set and 16-bit architecture, the system software transforms the GS into a totally different beast. The GS architecture is strained as it is, adding any sort of Apple-supported bank-switching to the GS would destroy it completely. No, there are far better alternatives than bank switching (hard drives, anyone?) Besides, I disagree with your contention that 8 megs of RAM in a GS isn't enough. Rarely do I run out of memory in my 1.75meg GS. I'd like to point out that I'm a heavy-duty developer, and Orca/C isn't the most efficient of beasts, not to mention having things like GSbug, NiftyList, and half a dozen other programmer's DA's installed. I'd be totally satisfied with 4meg- any application I chose to develop for the GS would definitely fit in 4 meg. "But wait", you say, "there are Unix programs that require more than 4 megs to compile". I'm writing *GS* programs, not Unix programs. My programs have to work on a 1meg machine. In any case, digitizing large amounts of sound and video? I don't want to sample 15 minutes of something. What use would it be besides to pretend your GS was a poor-quality tape recorder? Same goes for video. Get a fast hard drive, and only having 8 megs of ram won't bother you. -- Jawaid Bazyar | "Twenty seven faces- with their eyes turned to Graduated!/Comp Engineering | the sky. I have got a camera, and an airtight bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu | alibi.." Apple II Forever! | I need a job... Be privileged to pay me! :-)