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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: 19 Jan 91 02:07:54 GMT
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In article <7540@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Well, except for the RAM they take up.

DAs take up very little RAM until they are invoked.  I _think_ they are are 
loaded into the System heap, which gets expanded dynamically.  I don't know
the technical limitations on DAs are, but I have DAs for all the basics: text
editing, spreadsheet, term, and simple database.  There's even a DA to run
HyperCard stacks.

It may be a kludgey OS, but it seems to work.