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From: zviki@techunix.technion.ac.il (Cohen Zviki)
Subject: Re: VA requirements
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 07:04:17 GMT
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	Hello !

	I use a 60MHZ pentium with 40MBs of RAM (OS/2 WARP) and it runs
great - no speed problems with the interface or such. I know that it also
runs quite nicely on a 100MHZ 486 DX4.

traymond@pcix.com wrote:
: In <185308Z24101995@anon.penet.fi>, an397723@anon.penet.fi (The Unknown Ranger) writes:
: >What is the minimum hardware configuration needed to run Visual Age 2 
: >(486/586, memory, etc.)?  WHat will it be for version 3? Thanks.

: The documentation for the OS/2 Warp VA 3.0 beta states;
: 33MHz 486
: 24 MB ram
: cdrom
: monitor with 256 colors, high res is better.

: I am running it with 16MB of ram on a 60 MHz pentium and it is slow.  It
: does take a lot of memory.  It also takes a lot of disk space, allow for
: 150 MB.

: Oh yeah, it is slow because there is a lot of swapping.  My swap file
: grows to over 32MB when I load it.  When I load VW 2.0 the swap file
: grows to about 19MB.

: Terry Raymond
: Crafted Smalltalk


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