New Amiga from SGI!
24-Jul-93 08:33:57
Sb: #108042-New Amiga from SGI!
Fm: Charles Hill 76370,3045
To: Brian Bartlett 72037,570
Brian,
The answer is #1, you are not reaching the high-end. 🙂
Try the following: load a 300 dpi 5×7 or 8×10 (inches) image into ADPro
(24-bit color) and see what happens to your 9 megs. 🙂 That is what is
necessary for color DTP. If you do DTP professionally, it will be a common
occurance. (Heck, try an 8×10 in 8-bit grey!)
Also…many renderings in 3D (using Lightwave, Aladdin or Real 3D 1.3 or 2.0)
suck up a LOT of RAM. 18 Mb makes Lightwave comfortable; 12 for Aladdin; 24+
Mb for Real 2.0 (more if you want to do massive collision detection within a
particle system — with transparency, etc.) I've seen a person with 32 Mb of
RAM crash Real 3D 2.0 for lack of RAM. 🙂 (Gigamem is a nice solution.)
Nine is fine for most normal business use (WP, Database, Spreadsheets, games,
etc.) but not for professional graphics. It is borderline low.
-Chas