Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!stl!dswt From: dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?) Summary: Small point Message-ID: <3094@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 1 Jun 90 09:14:54 GMT References: <14934@dime.cs.umass.edu> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Stewart Tansley" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 25 Affiliation: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh (Harlow branch!) In article <14934@dime.cs.umass.edu> roskill@cs.umass.edu writes: >In article <1990May29.214054.21609@portia.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes... >> >>Windows 3.0 takes up 6 Mb of *disk space* It runs well in 2 mb of RAM... >>...Compare/contrast to System 7... > >System 7.0, at least the alpha or beta (sorry I don't remember) I got >on the developers CD-ROM was huge. ---- Can you say 'debugging code'? :-) Why do folks expect so much of beta systems, let alone *alpha* (which is the only System 7 I've heared has been around the developer community)?!! I would think the 6Mb disk (including all options), 2Mb RAM for Windows 3 will be a little more than System 7, but not a lot. (Damn! - speaking as a Mac fan!) =========================================================================== Stewart Tansley | STC Technology Ltd | 'Be cool, or be +44 279 29531 x2763 | London Rd, Harlow, CM17 9NA, UK | cast out...' dswt@stl.stc.co.uk | ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dswt | Subdivisions, Rush =========================================================================== 'You know how that rabbit feels - going under your spinning wheels...' ===========================================================================