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From: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW target market
Message-ID: <16153@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 89 23:33:51 GMT
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Reply-To: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel)
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In article <4743@internal.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>In article <16124@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric 
>Schlegel) writes:
>> THERE DO EXIST some people (such as me) who
>> are lowly college students, who run MPW 3.0 on a Mac Plus...
>
>You have my DEEPEST sympathy!  How much memory is on your Plus??  If it's 
>one megabyte, how do you COMPILE anything???

My Plus has 2.5 meg in it - I'm looking forward to upgrading it 4 sometime
soon, hopefully by Christmas. Small compiles actually aren't that bad, maybe
30 seconds to a minute. Running MacApp 2.0b9 is pretty ridiculous, though.
MABuild itself takes something like 30 secs - a minute to generate the build
script. To wait 3 or 4 minutes for the compiler to find a simple syntax error
is somewhat annoying.

Nonetheless, I do put up with it - it's the only system that has the power
I want. Not fun, and I wish very much that it was faster - but I live with it.

Don't bother running SADE, though. It's worthless, much too slow to be
useful on the Plus. Sure was nice using it on Microsoft's Mac II over the 
summer, though...

Informal poll idea: I'd be interested in hearing from people on the net who
use MPW. How many of you _are_ using in on Pluses/SEs? How many on II-class
machines?

Eric Schlegel
eric.schlegel@dartmouth.edu