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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional
Message-ID: <4849@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 May 88 19:43:45 GMT
References: <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com> <2730@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <2730@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>In article <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com> long@colors.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!) writes:
||  I also understand that FWP doesn't even run on a 1MB Mac.  DOESN'T 
|   It runs on a 1 meg machine, it's just not very comfortable, it like some
|more room than that, most of the sophisticated software these days requires
|more than a Meg of RAM.  No one seems to mind any of the CAD/CAM systems
|chomping on memory.  And besides if they limited it to 1 meg of RAM it's
|wouldn't be as powerful as it is.

What ever happenned to the concept of demand paging (virtual memory) or
segmented code (non-virtual memory)?  With hard disks being ever easier to
come by (at least no global shortage of them), swapping to/from hard disk and
the like could help alleviate the 1 Meg memory shortage, too.  For instance,
do I really need to have ALL of the system and finder be memory resident?  Do
I really need to have Cyrillic fonts (useless example, but you get the point)
take up valuable memory if I only need them occasionally?  And, no, loading
them occasionally with the font/da mover is not a solution, just a workaround.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."