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From: joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs, HyperCard, Multifinder, and Memory Constraints
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 19:16:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 19:16:03 1987
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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Keywords: Good new stuff for Macs, but has Apple painted themselves into a corner?

>1Mb RAM is not fully sufficient.
>
>This may suddenly discourage a lot of potential Mac SE & II buyers, and thus
>reduce Apple's sales.
>
>Possible solutions for Apple are to prepare and release (real soon) an
>HC & Multifinder that will run well on 1Mb, OR begin selling Macs WITH 2 Mb!
>
>These are my opinions.  What do the rest of you think?  Do any of our fellow
>netters from Apple have any comments?

I agree.  I recently had my MAC enhanced and am now very much dismayed that
the minimum usable MAC is now a 2 Meg SE with a 40 Meg hard disk.  Even
before Hypercard & Multifinder, System 4.1 is useless on a floppy based MAC
because of its size, (150K bigger because, I am led to believe, of the MAC II
color support which is useless baggage on a regular MAC).