Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 13:06:04 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 14:57:42, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >Shopping for a computer at Gateway (they custom configure). He suggested that >since windows 95 supported only 128 meg ram I was wasting money on requesting >256. I told him my apps software (chess programs, fritz etc) could use for sure >up to 184 meg ram on my current configured computer with 256 meg ram. This >value is what fritzy will setup when i tell it to play full strength. Is he >right ? is anything over 128 meg ram of little or no value because of windows ? >Even so is performance significantly improved by goiong to 256 meg ram ? Wayne... I got a Gateway computer (desk-top) that i bought a couple of years ago from Gateway... came with Windows 95 loaded on it... now-a-days... those Gateway computers come loaded with Windows 98 2nd edition... and am quite sure can handle 256 Megs of memory, and, just a guess, performance would improve also (due to a larger swap file)... regards... - PilgrimDan >thanks
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