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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
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Date: 29 Oct 90 20:55:03 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.195413.7784@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Can somebody explain to me why the average Mac user [...]  needs
>[virtual memory]?  OK, so you can't run Unix on it, but so what?

You don't really, but, looking at history, you KNOW there will come a
word processor too big to run in a reasonable amount of RAM; virtual
memory will then let you pretend you have an unreasonable amount (provided
you either have or can cannibalize enough HD space).

Applications always expand to overflow available memory.  Back when the
Apple II first got 64K, who would have thought anybody could possibly
ever be crunched with only a meg?

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