15 Jul
2005
15 Jul
'05
10:40 p.m.
Hal Lane wrote:
Note that modern computers have enough RAM so that Fractint essentially never uses the disk for simulating video memory.
Hmm, my not-so-modern Duron box, where Fractint runs very happily under OS/2, never uses the disk in that situation. OS/2 tells the DOS session that it has a huge pile of extended or expanded or DPMI memory, and Fractint says "Weeeee!" Heck, even the oldest computer in the house (350MHz AMD K6-2) has 384MB of RAM, although Fractint and Windows never got along on it ... -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community