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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: mminit?
Message-ID: <53526@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 14:32:05 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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I wrote:
|> Party Line is to trash it, and get the right fixes in System 7.

Chuck Shotton replies:
|Suppose, heaven forbid, someone doesn't want to run System 7? Is Apple going
|to "fix" MMInit so poor, misguided System 6 users can have a fix to the fix
|for buggy ROM code?

First, try to understand the problem:

The bugs in question do not cause crashes, but only slow pointer
allocations down under certain obscure circumstances. I think Prograph
was the only program known to cause this problem to manifest. The
average user would never run into this bug, and therefore would not
benefit from the fixes. (It's not like your Mac would run 20% faster.)

MMInit also eats a lot of system heap (over 5k), and god forbid
another init conflicted with it!

When The-Corporate-Entity-Apple weighed the issue, they saw that the
benefits to users were practically non-existant, so MMInit has never
been officially released. Some hacker leaked it to the net a few
months back, and it's probably floating around somewhere.

Similar corrections are in System 7.0, if you should want to run that.
They've been extensively tested there, with a wide variety of
programs. You might also start a movement to get the functionality
incorporated into the forthcoming system 6.0.8.

I tried the patch, and it didn't make any difference, even with my
most memory-flogging apps (Lisp and a multi-dimensional spreadsheet I
support). I therefore removed the patch from 6.0.7, and left it at
that.

Obviously, you should decide for yourself if you want to run it, and
test it out carefully before using it. (Also, make sure it isn't a
virus in disguise!) But the party line is still NOT to use it, because
it almost certainly won't make your mac faster or crash less often,
and because who needs another init eating your memory?

bill coderre
just trying to help you understand