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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Fullwrite without hard disks
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Date: 24 Jan 88 21:12:32 GMT
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In article <4708@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
>
>I use a 2 meg Mac with an external 800k disk and no hard disk.  Could I
>make full use of FullWrite with such a system if I used a ram disk to hold
>some of the extras dohickeys?

Gods, it'd be tight.  You've got FullWrite (~800K), the dictionaries and
Thesauruses (which are together (I believe) around ~250K); and then
FullWrite needs 1 Meg of RAM to run in...

Hmmm... Maybe if you could get the dictionaries and thesaurus on the startup
floppy, and load FW into the RamDisk... geez, but it'd be close.

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