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From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: re^4:what to buy??(numbercruncher)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.160839.28053@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:08:39 GMT
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In article <76@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>>Question: Since on a MAC you need to specify the size of an application
>>(in the INFO window) does it still give an out of memory error if it needs
>>more than that size, even with Virtual Memory? (That seems stupid)
>
>Question:  Does the Amiga have Dynamic Memory Allocation?

 Of course! How else would it multitask if applications merely
"took over" chunks of memory?

  Question: Why do you have to specify a size to the Mac OS? What's
the point?


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