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From: len@qumix.UUCP (Leonard Labar)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: In favor of skinny Macs.
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 13:48:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 13:48:12 1985
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In favor of skinny Macs:

Recently the trend is towards more and more Ram with more and more disk
storeage and hard disks to compensate for the access time needed to
retrieve all those big files.  This is driven by software houses that
employ large staffs of programmers to develop integrated software that
since it is developed in pieces and glued together is never
code-optimized.  It takes time to do that and time is money.

Now I am not as rich as the rest of the world.  Also, I believe this is
unnecessary.  Suppose the new finder were available soon in ROM for the
128k Mac?  Then suppose that everything were slimmed down to accomodate
faster operation.  Then suppose everyone got hot on the idea of
devloping integrated software for 128k instead of 512k.  This would
probably be done by smaller software houses and hackers since the
larger ones wouldn't see enough R.O.I. on this.  Now lets use things
like the Skipfinder DA or a 128k version of Switcher (anyone want to
try that?).  Then lets get the hardware hackers involved in speeding up
the internal 400k disk drive (after all 400k should be enough).

Let's keep the Mac "the computor for the rest of us."  How about it?
Anyone care to comment or tabulate what efforts are currently being
done in this area?