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From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can Hypercard be used _at all_ on a 512Ke?
Message-ID: <1672@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 14:40:17 GMT
References: <23211@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Lines: 33
Summary: Hypercard on 512K

In article <23211@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, wms@cevax.berkeley.edu (Wiley Sanders) writes:
> I have a 512Ke; can I use hypercard on it at all, even if
> it can only accomodate a minuscule stack? Or does hypercard
> look for 1Meg and refuse to run if there is less?

Alas, that is the case. Hypercard in order to do anything needs a full
Meg of memory. That's why even on a SE off the shelf you really can't
use MultiFinder and HC very well together. But there is a glimmer of
hope in the distance. I read in an interview with Bill Atkinson that he
is working on a strickly Brouse mode version of HC with no Scripting, etc.
that will run on the 512K. I hope this materializes as I have some educational
stacks that I'd like students to be able to use on a 512K machine that is
not likely to be upgraded.


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