Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Memory Manager INIT? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 22:36:12 GMT References: <13953@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu In article <13953@dog.ee.lbl.gov> osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) writes: > I'd like to know from someone in the know if this really was or is a > problem with the ROMs for certain machines? Has System 7 patched or > otherwise corrected the memory manager so that this init is no longer > necessary? If not, then is this init approved of by anyone at Apple > for correcting the problem? It really was a problem on some machines (my Mac IIci for instance), but the problem is only noticable with a very small number of programs. Like, two or three different programs. If you did not notice a dramatic speed improvement in anything you did after installing the init, then chances are the problem did not really effect you at all. These problems are fixed with system 7. Do not even think of using the init if you are running system 7. System 7 fixes the same things, and includes other changes which you'll only lose if you install the init. You'll definitely make your life worse if you run this init with system 7. If you're still running system 6 then you can think about it, but it isn't really a good idea. It's quite possible that running the init with system 6 will cause you more problems then it will solve. In my case it was worth running the init, but for the vast majority of Mac users it is not. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA