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From: chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Death to the Finder ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.074738.4433@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 16 Apr 91 07:47:38 GMT
Organization: James Cook University
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In article <1991Apr14.221831.8968@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
>	I would have to say to 2 Meg users that even though apple says that
>you can run System 7 with 2 Megs, you will probably want to upgrade to at least
>4 Megs to get the most out of it. Since "Multifinder" is always on, you will
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>probably never get more than 2 programs to run at a time and most likely 
>never more than one big one. In addition, if you wanted to run, say Think
>Pascal, forget it with 2 Megs of memory. 

	I was wondering if the following still applies in System 7.0:- 
Often when I start running out of memory, I kill the Finder and then I
can launch more programs (small ones :-) using any of the application
launching utilities (I use MasterJuggler).  Note I also have a largish
Finder Partition (512K).  I seem to remember that one of System 7.0's
features is that the memory partitions aren't fixed (ie when you kill a
500K program in Sys 6.etc you are left with a 500K hole in the middle
if it was launched in between two other programs).  Would this mean the
little hole made by the Finder at the front will be joined with the rest
of the memeory at the end ?
					Michael.
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