On Tue, 15 May 2001 at 20:39:55, you wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>> At the moment I can use only 32 MB under SMS. Only Linux supports the
>> whole memory. Neither the amount of RAM nor the amount of hard disk space
>> is really needed under SMS. It's just to show that it's possible and
>> people that are used to the resource waste of Windoze sure like to see
>> these huge values ;)
>
>Whenever I have to compare my system, I usually point out that when I
>first got my 128K QL, 32K went to the screen, a bit more to system
>variables, etc leaving 77K free for use. I could then run a text
>editor, Assembler, Machine Code Monitor AND the program under
>development in this memory whereas most people with PCs with 640K memory
>could only barely run one of these programs at a time, requiring Windoze
>if they even wanted to do something similar, unlike the native QL OS.
>
>Now I point out that with 2M of memory the programs and data rattle
>around inside my QL
Ditto with SGC (4mb)
>(I've never run out of memory working with my QL,
>but had lots of problems of insufficient memory errors when trying to
>get PC programs to run, even with 32M installed therein!),
I run out of memory all the time on mine with 512mb (8-)#
> and my
>floppies each hold 3.2M of data each (my box of 10 is roughly equivalent
>to a 30M hard disc that was the PC norm when I got my QL disk drives)!
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