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From: bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <207@tahoma.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 14:45:48 EST
Article-I.D.: tahoma.207
Posted: Mon Nov 16 14:45:48 1987
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References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Co., Seattle, WA
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Summary: Amiga multitasking memory requirements

In article <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson) writes:
> Oh boy, I think I'm going to get flamed for this one.

I don't know why you would.

> 
> I am a non-Amiga user.  I just found out that the Amiga is multi-tasking,

   How did you find out?  Grapevine, Amigan friends, or (gasp!) CA ads??

> something for which I would kill.  

   So would a lot of technical and non-technical users if they knew the
benefits of multitasking (as you obviously do) and found out that the
Amiga supports it.  And it looks like CA's advertising agency might
actually be starting to tell the world one or both of the above points.

>
>				     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.
> 

Probably, but 2 would be nice and 3-5 very powerful.  The actual programs
that you might want to run at once will probably take less than a meg. So
you can get by fine with 1M.  But to use a recoverable RAM disk (survives
a warm boot) and facc (floppy accelerator that is a disk cache - best
thing since sliced bread) you will most certainly want 2-3M, and 5M if
you are spending a lot of time doing program development and want all
your libraries in RAM.

> 	Johan Larson

Go for it, Johan!  Note - I own CA stock, but mostly for the exact same
reasons you would do well with Amy, I have with the Amy1000 and will
with the 2000 one of these days.



-- 
Dave Bakken
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken
Disclaimer:  These views are my own, not my employers.