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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: How can you "give" an app >9999k under MultiFinder?
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:52:16 GMT
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In article <324@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.SCUBED.COM (Ken Warner) writes...
[...] 
>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.

Under A/UX 2.0b9, at least, I can give Digital Darkroom >14 meg (I did it by
using ResEdit to change the SIZE resource; thanks to those who gave advice).  I
haven't tried it under Virtual yet, though.

Robert


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