Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:39:44 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 18:32:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 > ^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >>>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 >> >>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. This is a little silly. If you don't know what they have to do with each other, you shouldn't be teaching CS. I used Win95 for about 2 weeks with 192MB RAM. It worked just fine. I admit that it wasn't OSR1 and I didn't run any special memory tests, but the memory got reported just fine in the System control panel. I answered the question for Win98 because I don't know anybody who still uses Win95, and I don't see why the memory handling would be different between the two. Everything else is virtually identical between them. If OSR1 couldn't address more than 128MB, then I guess my post is only half right, and I'm sorry. -Tom
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