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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: 32-bits: what's the big deal?
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Date: 20 May 91 14:34:32 GMT
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In article <1991May20.020440.23001@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sjhg9320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Idiot Savant ) writes:

>However, I do see your point- at the present moment, running Excel, Word,
>MacDraw II, Hypercard, DeltaGraph, and System 7.0 simulatneously only takes
>10 Megs. Most personal and professional users will never slam into the memory
>limits imposed by 24-bit addressing for at least another 18 months, maybe 
>longer.

Part of the reason people won't run into those limits is that the limits are
there.  I have a bunch of DAs (DAs=applications under 7.0) and little utilities
that I would like to keep open under 7.0, and if I ran 7.0 with the apps you
mention (and I would run more since I do net admin too), I could easily surpass
14 meg.  Even without net admin, using newer 7.0-aware apps will almost 
certainly take people close to the 24 bit limit, and we haven't even dealt with
color and animation software users.

With 7.0, "everything is an application" is supposed to the be rule (that of
course has exceptions.)  While you can launch a bunch of programs in a given
amount of space, that isn't the only impact on memory used.  I've noticed that
after a substantial amount of use time, the amount of memory used by the 
System grows.  

I knew that when I bought my SE and later the upgrade to the SE/30 that I 
wouldn't be using all the potential of my machine, but I expected that I would
be able to use those features when I needed them.  Even if only 1% of the 
owners of "dirty-ROM" machines need the marketed capabilities of their machine,
that leaves thousands of people in the lurch.

The situation demands an Apple answer.