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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Version 7.0 questions
Keywords: version 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.063648.9487@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 06:36:48 GMT
References: <258@valid.valid.com> <1991Mar15.181002.19979@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Has someone tried to run mathematica under system 7.0 ?   Does it fit
in the memory of an SE/Classic along with the new system software?

I still think it was an error (or a cruelty to new users) to release a
new machine (the classic) which is limited to only 4 Mb of RAM.
Mathematica interface + kernel is nearly unlivable under MF 6.03 with
5Mb on a Mac II (it runs out of memory and dies after doing three 3-D
figure plots).

It seems that in the near future there will be many useful
applications that might choke on the limited memory of the macintosh
classic.  They probably could have made minor changes to the classic
to allow 8Mb of RAM.

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
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