Re: [APML] 'Puter Questions

[Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>]

>>>>> "Warren" == Warren A Keller <warhen@mindspring.com> writes:

    Warren> I'm still limping along on a Pentium II, 64 RAM. PS v.6
    Warren> and other large programs, has it behaving like a drunken
    Warren> snail, and seems a bit unstable with fairly frequent
    Warren> lock-ups and error messages. (# of stack pages, fatal
    Warren> exception...)

I am writing this on a Pentium II system, but the single biggest
difference is RAM.  My Windows 2000 virtual machine runs with 512 MB
of RAM allocated to it[1].

    Warren> Would an additional memory card help this, or is it more a
    Warren> result of the processing chip speed? Time for a new one?!

RAM....

    Warren> Also along these lines, are there problems, with any stage
    Warren> of post processing, including smoothing, on a compressed
    Warren> TIFF file since a 22 MB, 35mm full-frame takes an
    Warren> unpractical eternity here?

You are almost certainly swapping which will kill performance.

roland

[1] The system is actually a dual processing Pentium II 450 MHz 
    machine with 1 GB RAM running RedHat Linux 7.2.  I run VMWare's
    virtual machine under Linux where the virtual machine is Windows
    2000 with 512 MB allocated to it.  Performance editing 50 MB
    (uncompressed) TIFF images with PhotoShop 6 is quite acceptable.
    And with Picture Window Pro it is even better.

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