Some senseless babbling from Eddy Thilleman to Holger Granholm
on 09-17-99  00:07 about Objects...

 ET> Hello Holger,

 ET> 14 Sep 99 20:58, Holger Granholm wrote to Mike Ruskai:
 
 HG> Just going from 16 to 32 Mb here was a big disappointment.
 HG> While Netscape loads in 32 seconds with 16 Mb RAM it takes 70 seconds
 HG> with 32 Mb RAM.

 ET> I recognize this only as a symptom of an ISA card, some old ISA cards
 ET> can't address more than 16 MB RAM, especially old ISA SCSI-cards.

 ET> I've 128 MB RAM and my Netscape v4.04 loads in 7 seconds (I timed it).

It takes 17 seconds here for version 4.61, which is a real dog on startup.  
This is with a PII/233 with 192MB of RAM.

The issue with ISA cards, incidentally, is whether or not they perform bus 
mastering DMA.  Since ISA slots only have a 24-bit DMA available to them, 
they limit OS/2's direct addressing ability to 16MB.  Anything above that 
is used as fast swap space.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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