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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 14 Jan 91 22:56:09 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.092706.10970@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:

>Peter,
>      2 Meg for a 10k doc is taking it a bit too far.........as for
>multifinder, allocating 1meg to each application regardless of size is
>nausiating.

Word 4.0 requires a 512k partition.  I just flipped over to the Finder, launched
Word with a 512k partition and opened a 540k text file.   Took about 2 seconds 
to open and no time to use the scroll bar to get to any part of the file. 

The default partition size for an app is 384k, but good programmers will put in
a smaller setting if their program can get by in less.  I just pulled up the
partition size info for a dozen utilities and they range from 128k to 700.