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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Flames about Multifinder
Message-ID: <6207@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 16:32:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 16:32:32 1987
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In article <233@dbase.UUCP> drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>
>Sorry, but I just tried it out on my 1MB Plus and Write 4.5, Paint 1.5, and
>MultiFinder couldn't quite hack it together.  I don't mean that it crashed
>or anything of that sort; however, Write kept giving me messages about
>inadequate memory and Paint barely ran at all.

I tried MacWrite 4.6, MacPaint 1.5, and Multifinder 1.0b7, with the default
memory allocations (224K for MacWrite, 146K for MacPaint).  

As I recall, MacPaint's memory usage is pretty fixed.  If it has enough
memory it will keep the whole document in memory, otherwise it spools it to
the disk (you can tell by using tha hand tool to scroll).  In my case, it
did keep the document in memory.  I was able to print on the LaserWriter.
(This was in the background; the background print spooler application takes
128K of memory.) 

I did not give MacWrite a really thorough test.  I was able to open a 6K
file, duplicate it 5 times (12 pages total), and change the style of the
whole document.  I believe that MacWrite will limit the total number of
paragraphs & rulers depending on how much memory you give it, so 224K may
not be enough to open some larger files.

>BTW: It really bogs down if you have a large System Heap (like maybe TMON and
>Suitcase).

If there is a lot of System-related memory being used, then you have less
RAM available for applications.  Most applications will degrade their
performance and/or capabilities accordingly.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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