Re: IIGS Ram Doubler?

[angel@step.polymtl.ca (Gabriel Bourgetel)]

Paul Schultz (schultp@aa.wl.com) wrote:
: Robin Prest (rprest@cln.etc.bc.ca) wrote:

: The answer was that the 65816 just not really designed to easily be able
: already was doing a good job of freeing up memory (much better than the
: Mac I was told) so that "in a way" the IIgs already performs some of the
: tricks which a RamDoubler program would do.

A RAM Doubler is only usefull on OS that manage badly it's memory. So, 
since,IMHO, the OS of the IIGS is one of the 16 bits OS that manage the 
best the memory that I have seen,it is not usefull, the only real problem 
is the page zero of memory, and I think that nothing can be done about it. 
For the windoze version, let's just say that, I THINK, microsoft is 
_REALLY_ not an OS publisher. I mean, I'm writing this from a PC <Grin>, 
and the memory management of DOS and windoze can be really improved...

So, why Apple didn't give the IIGS a 16 MHz processor instead of a 2.8 
one. 


angel@step.polymtl.ca

Q: How many windoze do's it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Only one, but it will crash 99.998787% of the time! (Sorry, 
calculation did on a pentium...)