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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard application memry requirements.
Message-ID: <48620@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:50:39 GMT
References: <8540@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Mitchell Christensen:
|	Why hasn't Apple provided a means to grow application memory
|	requirements dynamically.  For instance.  I have a large (full
|	page) stack I use about twice a month.  When using this stack I
|	must set application memory size to 2meg.  The rest of the time
|	1meg is fine.  This leads to...

Well, it ain't Hypercard's fault, but rather that of the Mac OS, which
wasn't really intended to do multi-whatever-ing. Multifinder is a
really great hack, but it cannot work miracles.

If one app opened up, and was given (say) 1 meg, then another opened
up, then the first needed more memory, well, it would be out of luck
because there is no way to move the other app out of the way without
crashing it.

Last I looked, there was a big "discussion" about this in
comp.sys.mac.programmer.

bill coderre
not apple's spokesdroid