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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Availability of HyperCard: It's here -- whoops!
Message-ID: <2192@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:50:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:50:36 1987
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Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
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Summary: 1 MB should be plenty

In article <1196@elrond.CalComp.COM> anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson) writes:
>
>Apple suggests 1 Mb with HyperCard, and with good reason.  It turns out that
>1 Mb isn't always enough!  In just a few days of browsing and playing around,
>I have run out of memory several times.  Usually, it says something like
>"There isn't enough memory to use the paint tools."  One time, it got so
>thoroughly out of memory, it just put up a warning box and returned to

hmmm.. I've been working with HyperCard quite a bit without memory
problems. The Handbook to HyperCard suggsts that it can be run in
a 700K switcher partition. Are you sure something else isn't sharing
memory with it?
BTW, I got the Handbook from Computerware. It's targeted at a broad
audience, and spends a lot of time on the basics. Of course, HyperCard
itself was meant to appeal to non-programmers (as well as programmmers)
and provide an excellent introduction to object-oriented programming
(or so it seems to me).
 Ron Beloin, Ecosystems Research Center, Corson Hall, Cornell, Ithaca,NY 14853
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