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From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
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Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
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Date: 31 Oct 90 01:25:53 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, say a typical
>office secretary, or a scientist who just wants to do word processing, data
>graphing, and figure preparation, or a (non-CS) student typing papers (or
>just about anybody not doing programming or major number crunching) needs
>VM?  OK, so you can't run Unix on it, but so what?

There have been several replies to this, mostly along the lines of what
I want is what I need, and I want VM because ..., usually larger memory
capacity. A point that seems to be missed is that whilst the greater
memory of VM is useful, the protected memory is ESSENTIAL for people doing
real work on their multifinder machine. It money depends on it, you
cannot afford to have one process go wild and destroy the memory
allocated to other processes.

Another point is that VM reduces the complexity of the code writting
process, which cannot be bad for the end user. If makes things easier
for the programmer you need it.

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