Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!apple.com!alexr From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: system 7.0 Message-ID: <12224@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 22 Feb 91 19:51:33 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Hacker's Anonymous Lines: 32 References:<12170@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Feb20.214745.24001@phri.nyu.edu> In article sandy@dino.cs.umass.edu (Sandy Wise) writes: > 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... > The Installer will fit it onto an FDHD floppy (1.44MB). You don't get many optional things. (Like AppleShare, the Chooser, etc.) > 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...) > Finder is closer to 350K. (Not sure exactly.) > How big is something like TOPS? The built-in "Personal AppleShare" > might be about the same size... FileShare is not loaded unless it is turned on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alexr@apple.com - Yoyodyne - - 330 1/2 Waverley St. - UUCP:ucbvax!apple!alexr - Propulsion - - Palo Alto, CA 94301 - - Systems - - (415) 329-8463 - Nobody is my employer so - :-) - - (408) 974-3110 - nobody cares what I say. - -