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Re: A new Zorro III memory board
« on: December 07, 2007, 03:32:42 AM »
I've been pondering this since the day I bought my A3000.  Back before they put the SIMMs on the CSPPC when DIMMs were the standard!

I know I'll get flamed again for saying it again, but 146M of RAM is just not enough for me!  I do use it up all the time.  I'd break the bank for 1G.  Heck, I'd live with 256M.  This "you don't need 128M on an Amiga" thing holds as much water with me as "640k ought to be enough for anyone".  Just like, you don't need SCSI, and 3 reboots on every cold start is acceptable.
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Re: A new Zorro III memory board
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2007, 03:06:13 AM »
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Someone said "136Mbytes on a classic Amiga is not enough". Really??


Yes.  Really.  No kidding.  My Amiga multitasks, and so do I.  I use screens!  I do not run one app at a time on the Workbench screen.

I have a Voodoo 5/5500, and I run 1280x1024x24.  At any given time I can have Provector, IBrowse, ArtEffect, and HSPascal running on seperate screens.  There are times when I use many more screens than this.  I am very productive this way.  I run FPC which is a memory hog(& serious fragger).  I have AmigaAmp running.  I generally have 3 or more browsers open in IBrowse.  I am (intermittently) working on a multiplayer game that can easily use 256M of RAM.  I have a busy webserver running.  I have a shell running on a remote terminal (which I am constantly using).

It's not that I'm too lazy to close windows/screens.  I am making full use of them.  I have always pushed my Amigas to their limits.  This is why I am an Amiga user to this day.  Try working a peecee this hard sometime.

Sorry if I sound :madashell: but I've been severely flamed on multiple occasions by people (granted not anyone currently here I think) who think I am wrong in the way I use my Amiga.
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Re: A new Zorro III memory board
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2007, 04:04:24 AM »
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Allow me to be the first. I'll buy two. Only 198 to go.


Put me in for two.  196 to go.

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Mind you, I still don't see why anybody could use that much on a bottlenecked CPU running at 233MHz or less ...


What the devil does the CPU speed have to do with RAM usage?  Give me half a chance and I'm sure I could find a legitimate application for a 6502 that could use 512M.  I may have been the only person to regularly run out of RAM on a C64 too.
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