How low can we really go?

[Derek Bump]

Judy,

While none of my programs are multi-media intensive, I tend to try for Win95, 100Mhz+, 8MB Ram and 2 Mbs of disk space as my minimum.  On the Macintosh side, I prefer System 7.5+, 80Mhz, 8MB Ram and 2 Mbs of disk space.

But what I don't do is put restrictions in my software like some companies do.  If you can get my software to run on Win 3.1 with 4mb's ram then Hey, congratulations.  I won't provide support for it, but if it works then that's just fine and dandy.
 

Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy Perry" <jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 1:37 PM
Subject: How low can we really go?


> Hi,
> 
> I asked this question a while back and I don't think anybody responded so,
> at the risk of being a supreme annoyance, I'm going to ask again.
> 
> What does everyone -- especially those who actually ship commercial
> products done with Rev -- believe to be the lowest common denominator
> hardware/software configuration for adequate performance?
> 
> My question is prompted by two things.  First, when demo-ing my master's
> project (an intro to Rev done in Rev), it was on 128 MB RAM PII machines
> running Windows2000.  And performance really sucked.  The same thing on a
> G4 128MB RAM Mac in OS 9.2 was tolerable/sucked much less.  Also, I've
> noticed that students' files on their PC laptops (unknown processor) with
> 128 MB RAM run less well than on our lab Macs described above.
> Additionally, on said lab Macs, I've noticed that when students are
> working on multimedia-intensive stacks, that if they run the
> animation/sound/QT movie enough times, the stack simply grinds to a halt
> and refuses to play the media; quitting Rev and relaunching seems to solve
> the problem, which doesn't occur/occur as frequently with a Mac with 512
> MB RAM and OS 10.x.
> 
> Second, knowing what this lowest common denominator is is important for
> deployment in education (and if anyone wonders why I keep harping on this
> market, notice that Rev's ONLY ed bulk license deal on their website is
> for K-12/pre-higher ed).  I note that Rev's website notes that compiled
> apps can run under Windows 3.11, which I find extremely difficult to
> believe.  Even if it does, my experience with 128 MB RAM/PII/Win2000 is
> that nobody in their right mind would *want* it to.
> 
> Mind you, I'm not *complaining* that it doesn't run well under Win3.11,
> merely that it shouldn't be oversold such that people (maybe middle
> schools with PI or PII machines running Win95/98) don't buy it thinking it
> will be an ideal solution and then be thoroughly disgusted with its
> performance or lack thereof.  The other thing is that I don't see any
> reference at all to required processor.
> 
> I'd like to do whatever I can to make Rev embraceable to the K-12 and
> teacher ed community, so understanding just how low we can *reasonably*
> go is critically important.
> 
> Judy
> 
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