Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0, Strike one, two.... Message-ID: <13843@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 3 Jun 91 17:45:13 GMT References: <1991May29.212623.8013@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 29 In article hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes: > >Even some of those Apple people told me that. 2MB of RAM in System 7 is >like 1MB of RAM under System 6. Especially since you can't run just the >Finder, everything is Multifinder. All this is true. So System 6 on a 1Mb machine is equivalent to System 7 on a 2Mb machine with respect to the size of programs you can run. But you do get some substantial benefits from the money you invest upgrading from 1Mb or RAM to 2 Mb: (1) Since the Finder is always running, quitting an application to run another is much faster than on System 6 (w/1Mb). (2) You can use the new feature of the System 7 Finder (aliases, Find, ...) (3) You can probably find a couple of small programs that could be run together in 2Mb. So it's a tradeoff whether these features are worth the cost of the extra RAM. For some people it won't be. -- Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. lsr@apple.com (or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)