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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <36@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 91 23:38:23 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

"It does?  7.0 took 1086K of RAM on our SE/30 *before* we installed any init's
or da's."

What do DA's have to do with how much memory the System takes? Under Sys7, 
DA's are essentially applications, not only in interface, but in how
the Process Manager treats them. They are NOT kept in the System file.
They do NOT take up any System Heap. They are launched as applications and
take a seperate, set piece of memory and are given their own layer (no more
DA Handler) just as applications are.