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From: Vivino@NIHDCRT (Mark Vivino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Why should appl be limited to 100 Mb?
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Date: 30 May 91 12:18:31 GMT
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Does anyone happen to know why applications are limited to 100 megabytes 
under system 7?
If you try and change the suggested size to more than that it'll tell you 
not to do it. It's not something that needs to be done lots for a home use 
computer, but say you have 10,000 medical images, or run a library catalog 
system or anything with lots of data and you want it available fairly 
fast. It would be a useful feature to not limit the application size to 
100 Mb.

Do we wait for system 8?

Mark Vivino
mvivino@helix.nih.gov