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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 Classic Available To Buy
« on: May 19, 2011, 11:51:49 PM »
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96Mb minimum RAM required!?
  Surely this is a misprint.
  OS3.9 can boot in 2Mb, why does OS4.1 require nearly 50 times as much!?
  If I wanted to run bloatware I wouldn't use an Amiga.


OS3.9 lists 6MB of Fast RAM in its requirements... Still a lot less, but 16 times less, not 50... As has been said before, there's a lot more involved in OS4 - it's made to be used at high resolution in truecolour modes, it has things like the TCP/IP, USB support and the likes running from boot, and things like the the 68k emulation module and a lot of the hardware extraction stuff all takes up memory. That's what it takes to add modern features - why else would you use OS4 if OS3.9's features are all you need?
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 Classic Available To Buy
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 01:21:40 PM »
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>OS3.9 lists 6MB of Fast RAM in its requirements... Still a lot less, but 16 times less, not 50...

I know, but 6Mb isn't necessary, it will indeed boot on a 2Mb system.


And OS4 will boot in far less than 96MB too - but it'll be about as useful as OS3.9 in 2MB - i.e. not very.
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Re: AmigaOS 4.1 Classic Available To Buy
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2011, 09:55:51 AM »
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We are not talking about profit, we are talking about up-to-date availability of printers - name me 1, yes just one, currently retailed modern inkjet or laser printer that we have a specific printer driver for?



Any printer that supports PostScript will do you just fine. Once you have Postscript support, the issue is more down to the applications not fully supporting it (e.g. Wordworth) than the OS. Off the top of my head, pretty much any Brother laser printer will work - hell, we use them in work for machines that still run MS-DOS 5... Most of them even have a parallel connection as well as USB.
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