Upon the date 11:27 PM 4/3/99 -0500, Max Eskin said something like:
>On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:
>>I hope you'll try Squeak again, though. Are you using UNIX? You may find
>>the MS-Windows and Mac versions more stable. Smalltalk's mechanism of
>>message passing and the "everything is an object" philosophy give it a
>>unique power.
>
>I was using the Windows 95 version, and it was constantly swapping. I have
>16 megs RAM, but I hardly think it should take that much. Is there a GNU
Although I cannot offer input on Squeak, etc. (I don't use it), I feel you
need to increase your RAM to 32 meg or even 64. Winslop95 is really rotten
at memory and resource management -especially when running apps that take
up a lot of resources. You've realized this by now I'm sure.
Hmmm . . . Could that have been a secondary reason the word "Windows 95"
was kept as this wannabe OS's name? "95% of resources escaped out the
Window" :-) :-)
My P200 machine, when with only 32 meg, swapped itself to pieces it seemed
after a few days since a reboot even though I'd shut down all unused apps
to run one. System resources still were not released. After kicking up to
64 meg I now can go for several weeks until needing a restart to recover.
Thanks a lot BG.
Good luck, Chris
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Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 12:56:54 BST