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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
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Date: 20 Sep 90 19:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Sep 20 14:06:00 1990


The "4MB Bottleneck" may soon become as bad as the "640K" bottleneck
on the IBM PC's.  Mathematica is nearly unusable with only 4 megs of
memory -- you run out of memory after 10 minutes of use.  I expect
that system 7.0 will make mathematica UNUSABLE on a 4Mb machine.  And
we can expect things to get much worse in the future.

If a certain Macintosh cannot support virtual memory, then it should
be possible to expand the main memory to 8-12 megabytes, to compensate
for this deficiency.  But the mac SE is designed with a built-in 4Mb
limitation.  While this originally was a selling point of the II
series, it will soom become an anchor around Apple's throat.

Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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