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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: re^4:what to buy??(numbercruncher)
Message-ID: <82@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 06:04:52 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
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Responding to the following:

">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?"

I believe I understand the difference now. Amiga applications take memory
dynamically as they need it. Macintosh applications, having been bred in
a single-tasking environment, instead check how much memory is available
and use it all. Under Mac Multitasking, you tell the OS how large a 
contiguous chunk to give the application. Then when the application checks
to see how much memory it has, it gets returned a value proportional to how
much you specified. Interesting. Am I right?