On Saturday June 10 2000, Julian Aronowitz said to All:
JA> One person, on the Voyager list stated that, one of the reasons that
JA> MS Windows does not crash when deluged by intense graphics is because
JA> it does a virtual memory routine in using the disk drives for extra
JA> storage space, and, that the Amiga does not have that facility, so it
JA> suddenly crashes. These crashes also occurred with AWeb, just to make
JA> sure every- one is aware that this is not a browser problem.
The Amiga crashes because the programs are not handling low memory properly.
It doesn't have to be the browsers (but most likely is) - if something else
does something in the background which fails due to low memory, then that will
take the machine down too.
JA> This brought to mind a program/package called, "GigaMEM." I do not
JA> recall whether this was a hardware/software combo or just a hardware or
JA> just a software setup. If it is only a software setup, then, will it
JA> work on an Amiga running AmigaOS 3.5? And, would it solve the problem?
It would work, and may help. With Voyager and FBlit it would certainly help
if it can be made to run reliably. The problem is that you can't create
swappable chip memory, so programs not capable of caching images in fast won't
do much with it.
There is a free alternative to GigaMem on Aminet, called VMM. Try it out, it
might just work.
JA> the reviews and comments). I am more interested in whether this is a
JA> plausible alternative to getting a graphics card with eight megs of
JA> RAM, for itself?
Not really, but it may help anyway.
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