Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:32:22 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 16:41:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>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
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>>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 ?
>>Thanks
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>This is BS.
>
>I have several friends with more than 128MB RAM and they use Win98 and it works
>just fine. I don't know what the Gateway guy has been smoking.
Since you like to do this to me, I thought you might like to have someone
point out that you didn't read the post carefully. He said "windows 95".
You answered with a response about "windows 98". What do the two have to do
with each other.
Some versions of win95 would definitely not go beyond 128mb. I don't know if
all had the problem or not. And I can't imagine anyone able to buy a computer
today that comes with win95 (and not 98 or NT) installed on it...
>
>So Windows will work just fine with the extra memory, but your chess programs
>probably won't run much better. This is because you get diminishing returns from
>increasing the hash table size. A better option is to take the money you would
>have spent on the additional memory and buy a faster processor.
>
>-Tom
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