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From: warner@scubed.SCUBED.COM (Ken Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How can you "give" an app >9999k under MultiFinder?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 15:35:16 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.201059.24633@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>|>number, so that max memory partition I can give it is 9999k.
>| One solution (or work around) is to use a handly little utility I wrote as
>| part of the Now Utilities, MemorySetter.  
>  Actually, ResEd does have a template for the SIZE resource, so you
>don't have to know hex. 

I am confused (as usual).  Doesn't MultiFinder have an 8 Meg. limit on the
amount of memory that it will allocate an application?  I've tried to give
Smalltalk-80 9999k of memory (I'm using Virtual) and the memory histogram
always shows Smalltalk-80 using less than 8 Meg.

Finder will give all the (virtual) memory to any application--in my case about
14 Meg. 

So my question: What good does it do to set the memory size to be greater than
8 Meg?

By the way Word 4.0 won't run at all under Finder with Virtual because it
doesn't like to have more than 8 Meg!!!

Ken Warner
warner@scubed.scubed.com