Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!sandy From: sandy@dino.cs.umass.edu (Sandy Wise) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: system 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 20:11:44 GMT References: <12170@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Organization: Organization? I thought entropy would take care of that... Lines: 36 In-reply-to: roy@phri.nyu.edu's message of 20 Feb 91 21:47:45 GMT In article <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: I wrote: > 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? I don't know. Seems pretty odd, but it *is* what the guy from Apple said... He also said there was no way to put 7.0 on a floppy, and since the SuperDrive is standard in the Apple lineup, it does lend credence to the bloat theory... Some WAGS (on how to eat an extra Meg in 7.0): 32K for Disk Cache (you can't turn it off under system 7). 200K for Finder (6.0 is 140K, let's add some size for all them new features... & MultiFinder is always on). 32K for TrueType (its supposed to be simpler than ATM) 100K for the font cache (I assume TrueType needs to cache rendered fonts like ATM, and I use 96K for ATM...) AppleEvents, IAC, EditionManager, and HelpManager will all eat up RAM... another 100K? 200K? How big is something like TOPS? The built-in "Personal AppleShare" might be about the same size... Of course, if someone with a Beta can size their system folder and report it to us... Take maybe 1/3 off that to remove debugging code that won't be in the release, it might give us an idea... /s -- Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ WISE@CS.UMASS.EDU /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\