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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
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Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 18:49:59 EST
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>Oh boy, I think I'm going to get flamed for this one.
>
>I am a non-Amiga user.  I just found out that the Amiga is multi-tasking,
>something for which I would kill.  However, if my sources are correct, the
>A2000 only comes with 1 meg standard.  My question is: is this enough to
>really use multi-tasking to its full extent?  Multifinder for the Mac is
>pseudo-multitasking, but it appearantly doesn't do much good until you're
>playing with at least 2 meg of memory and a hard disk.
>
>	Johan Larson

	Not at all.  The problem with the Mac is that it *eats* memory.
Multifinder itself is huge, and most Mac applications assume they can play
with all the available memory.  Equivalent applications on the Amiga take 
much less memory, and are more friendly towards the machine's resources.

	1Meg is sufficient.  I myself have 2.5Meg in my A1000, 1Meg of that
being a ram disk to hold my development enviroment (compile, linker,
include files, etc...).  Of course, memory is very cheap these days, and
with the A2000 it is simply a matter of buying a 2, 4, or 8 Mbyte board
to expand even further.

				-Matt