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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 Xvesa without swm uses half the RAM (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:22:50 +1200

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Without swm/MENU Xvesa will let you run a 528K program in 3M RAM.
> With swm/MENU you can only run a 252K program in 4M RAM.

Your figures are badly wrong. Have you actually tried
running an X program with 3mb RAM? Obviously not.

> Lynx and links need xli for viewing images, in BL3.
> They will both run in 4M RAM without swm/MENU but not with them.

Did you actually try running links with xli in 4mb RAM?
If you had, you would have seen that it's not viable
(because of massive swapping).

Please test such things *before* presenting them here
as facts.

Cheers
Steven




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