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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: PacerTerm announcement
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Date: 7 Jun 91 18:15:53 GMT
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molloy@emerald.icd.teradyne.com (Phil Molloy) writes:

>One important consideration will be the size of the program.  I quite using
>RedRyder due to it's size (>1M).  Although I have 4M in my Mac+, 1M for the
>com program is too much.  MacLayers is sitting here quite happy with 225K.  I
>realize that more features will cause it to grow, but if it reaches the >1M 
>size, it will be too big for me.

Matt Kingman wrote to me with the following:

>The application will run on a 1MB Mac Plus or greater (it will run in a
>550K but is much happier with more memory).  On a 1MB machine you will
>be limited as to the amount of connections you can make.  On disk, the
>application consumes 480K and the tools range from 24K (Text FT) to
>207K (VT320, the pig of the group) with most being less than 60K.  And
>don't forget MacTCP.

Not too bad.

pr
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