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From: dpaight@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Dan Paight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM and saving bitmaps (Was Re: ATM was ATM and HP LaserJet)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 03:45:37 GMT
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In article <10597@venera.UUCP> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
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>This way, I could "install"
>the fonts, and ATM would check the  first time I used them to make
>sure I was legit, then I wouldn't have to worry about rebuilding them
>if my queue got flushed, and I wouldn't have to allot a cahce (not
>queue) to keep them from flushing.  For instance, there are certain

Speaking of the RAM cache, just how does ATM handle it?  What I mean
is, does the program take whatever cache space is available, or does
it leave some for other programs?  It would be a shame if ATM
rendered the RAM cache practically unavailable to other programs.
Could I "tell" it to, say, take 96k for itself, but to leave another
64k for applications?  If not, wouldn't it be better to store all of
ATM -- fonts and all -- in the system heap and then make the amount
of space ATM occupies configurable in a cdev or something?  

dp