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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hypercard (was Re: Claris)
Message-ID: <7034@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Jan 88 08:57:06 GMT
References: <8801072216.AA07063@crash.cts.com> <408@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <408@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>Hypercard on the GS will probably require a minimum of 1 meg memory
>and a 10 meg or more hard disk.

This is about the minimum anyone with serious uses for a IIGS will
need (eventually) anyway.  Some of us have already decided that the
32MB ProDOS volume size limit is getting in the way!  However, I
don't think HyperCard would necessarily require a hard disk; within
a year or two, I expect to see CD-ROM HyperCard browse-only stacks
showing up on store shelves.

>And it needs to be very fast; I have seen hypercard on a SE using
>Apple's internal 20 meg - is it slow!

I don't know why; it may have been dependent on the particular stack.