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From: cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (jeff t. segawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: magic sac,finder5.5,hypercard
Message-ID: <921@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 21:57:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 21:57:28 1987
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Keywords: atari.st,magic sac

In article <5525@drutx.ATT.COM> nick@drutx.ATT.COM (SilvaN) writes:
>The latest issue of the Data Pacific newsletter shows that the latest
>system (4.1?) and finder (5.5) will work on the sac. I tried moving both over
>to the st (800k disk needed this time) but with poor results. 

I'm not really up to date on the latest developements in the Magic Sac
(I use a Mac II), but I believe that System 4.1 and Finder 5.5 requires
the 128K Mac Plus ROMs or later, as most of the Hierarchal Filing System
(HFS) is contained in the new ROMs. Data Pacific must be using a specially
patched system file. As for HyperCard, I'm very impressed with it, but
it's barely usable on a floppy disk-only Mac (and ST, I guess). Taken with
it's sample "stacks", H.C. occupies a whopping 2+ Megs of disk space. As 
I'm sure you've also noticed, the new System and Finder are also a lot
bigger than the older ones. My system folder, filled with fonts and other
goodies takes up another 2 Megs of disk space, though it could be stripped
down to fit a 400K floppy if needed. This might be a good time to consider
purchasing a hard disk!