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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple Introduces HyperCard for the Apple IIgs (Press Release)
Message-ID: <14692@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Dec 90 22:33:22 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9876@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	(2) It requires 1.5 megs of RAM and 2.0 are recommended. That
>-SUCKS-.  Unless Apple now upgrades the GS to 1.5 or 2 megs on board,
>that makes people not able to run HyperCard GS with a GS out of the box.

Yeah, but since a full-featured HyperCard implementation is naturally
that big, what choice was there?
	(a) release HyperCard GS and require users to have enough RAM
	(b) don't release HyperCard GS
	(c) produce a "crippled" version of HyperCard GS that would
	hobble along, doing not much, in 1.125MB RAM machines
Since any serious use of the IIGS requires a large amount of RAM anyway,
alternative (a) seems reasonable enough to me.  Wishful thinking gets
you nowhere.