Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!set!bskendig From: bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: system 7.0 Message-ID: <6463@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 21 Feb 91 05:35:45 GMT References: <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> <1991Feb21.045213.4108@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 30 In article <1991Feb21.045213.4108@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes: >In article <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >>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. The Apple engineers were having rampant orgies. I have a Mac SE with 2.5M of memory; right now the System is taking up 839k and the Finder 385k, leaving 1336k free to play around with. This is pretty much in line with the estimate of leaving 750k free on a 2M machine. (And there seems to be a bug in 7.0b1 whereby my System keeps gradually growing, until after a few hours of work it has taken up all but a small portion of the free memory...) But the stuff they added is *nice* -- and, keep in mind that there's probably still some debugging code being loaded into the machine, too. By the time that System 7.0 is released (late April?), the engineers will probably have been able to put it on a diet. << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."