Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Don Messerli <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 18:53:34 -0400
The reason for the high RAM requirements is that not all the code in Windows
is multiuser. Some subsystems have to be loaded once for each user.
Don
On 7/4/01 6:42 PM, "Michael Mulligan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I agree that this is a conveniant feature (I'd be happy if OS X just
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remembered the state of my account when I logged out, even if it took a few
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seconds to set everything up again).
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One down side of this feature though are the RAM requirements for XP. I
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believe that I've read that you basically start with 128 MB (to work
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comfortably) and should add at least 64 more for each account since they're
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all open simulataneously. I know that the claim can easily be made that RAM
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is cheap enough these days, but for the family computer, I dunno that joe
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consumer tends to beef his machine up with 384 MB of RAM so that his family
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can jump around between accounts a little bit quicker. Just another thing to
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consider...
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-m^2
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