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From: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Memory Manager INIT?
Keywords: memory manager init
Message-ID: <14070@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 8 Jun 91 07:06:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.155830.29844@guinness.idbsu.edu> <13953@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <53702@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn)
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In article <53702@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>In article <13953@dog.ee.lbl.gov> osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) writes:
>>
>>I was using the Memory Manager INIT with my IIci prior to installing
>>System 7.  The documentation that came with the init did a nice job
>>(I thought) of explaining what was wrong with the memory manager on
>>various Macs including the IIci.  The problem made it very inefficient
>>under certain circumstances when allocating memory (Ptrs and Handles).
>>
>>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?
>>
>
> [...]
>
>If you're indeed experiencing a performance proglem, make sure that the above

Mark, thanks for the info., but what's a ... ^^^^^^ ?
(I'm not sure if I'm experiencing any of those  8^)

>conditions are not contributing to it.
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>"You gave your life to become the person you are right now.  Was it worth it?"
>                                                         - Richard Bach, _One_

Is it not fair to tell us the name of those "very-few-and-not-in-the-Top-100-
Macintosh-Programs-of-All-Time" programs that did have problems?  You don't
have to answer that if you don't want to, I'm certain I'm not using one the
programs in question - just curious.

-- James

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