Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hsdndev!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: system 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 20 Feb 91 21:47:45 GMT References: <12170@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 13 sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) writes: > A 2M Mac with 7.0 will have about 750K of free memory to run applications > (i.e.the same as a 1M Mac under 6.0). Reality check time. You're saying that 6.0 is 250k and 7.0 is 1250k? A factor of 5 difference? Is this possible? It is hard to imagine even the most rampant orgy of adding features and increasing buffer and cache sizes resulting in a factor of 5 difference in system size. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"