robin@ccb.ucsf.edu (Robin Colgrove) (06/30/89)
so a whole flock of responses poured in about my thanx for all the help re wolframatica and a couple made the wise suggestion that i summarize (several actually DID ask questions about real viruses!) anyway, there was no absolute consensus but the general gestalt was somethin like this: 1 meg : don make me laugh, mahn. 2 meg : enuf to be useful but crashes a lot 4 meg : good for most stuff cept complex graphics 5 meg : rare graceless crashes. buy more RAM as price drops. 8 meg : VM? we don need no steenkin virtual memory! feeling seemed to be: buy the program now if you can get a good deal and get around to upgrading RAM whenever... HTH, robin