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8 Aug 2024 14:19:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trying to stay povactive... :)  
From: Alain
Date: 30 Aug 2005 18:24:22
Message: <4314dc96@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v2 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-08-29 13:12:
>>> Yeah, but... storing photons in swap space? Well that's *one* way to 
>>> test out the speed if the arm actuator on your harddrive... ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> It doesn't thrash nearly as badly as, say, Windows 95 with 4MB RAM, 
>> though ;)
> 
> 
> AAAARRRRGGHH!!!!!! >_<
> 
> 
> I spent 4 years running Windows 95 on a 16MB system with a 233MHz 
> Pentium I in it... That wasn't even funny. 4MB RAM... OK, I'm scared!
Myne was 100 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM. Going from 16 to 48 made a HUGE performance
improvement! It almost 
doubled the speed.
Before that, I had an Apple ][+ runing 1.024 Mhz with 48K of RAM (fully loaded) and
16K of ROM.

Alain


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