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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
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Date: 18 Jan 91 16:10:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.050529.13101@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:

>By the way, every program on my hard disk is as good as a desk accessory.
>I can have a million desk accessories ready to use and still use ALL of
>my Amiga's memory for any other purpose.  My Amiga never has just "passable"
>performance due to the number of programs I have available.

Well, I was talking about an 8Mhz 68000 machine there.  One thing people may not
realize is that Desk Accessories on the Mac do not take up processing time 
unless they've been run.  Think of them as a menu of small (generally) programs
you can run at any time without worrying about memory fragmentation issues etc.
(I know, the Amiga can do this with any program...)  I have 60 DAs available and
it could be 200 and still not affect the performance of the machine materially.

>I typically run all these inits, plus have a resident assembler, editor,
>and linker, run DPaint with 10 screens of animation, and still have
>2.89 Megs of RAM free.  I have not had to quit an application to make more
>free memory for another application in years.

I wish I could do in my 5 megs what you can do in yours.  The Mac has never been
the leanest machine in terms of price, memory, or CPU efficiency.  Its strength
has always been in putting a fairly powerful interface in the hands of people
who otherwise probably wouldn't be using computers, or would be using them as
"1-2-3 boxes" or "Word boxes".  Some people shouldn't be allowed within 10 feet
 of a CLI.