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From: mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.054633.14564@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 16 Jan 91 05:46:33 GMT
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In article <42520@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>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.

You miss the point.  You must do a bunch of operations to change an APP's 
partition size.  And you cannot change it while the app is running.  And
if you use a 384K or 512K partition for you Word 4.0, you can't load a big
document into it.

Cheers!