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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, Licensed To Dream)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional
Keywords: Fullwrite memory
Message-ID: <10994@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 25 May 88 05:14:42 GMT
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In article <416@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <537@aplcomm.UUCP> gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (John R. Gersh) writes:
>>FWP _does_ run just fine on a 1 Meg Mac Plus! 
>>
>>If you set up your preferences to do so, it will even warn users on
>>machines with more than 1 Meg when their chapter is about to become too
>>large to open on a 1 Meg machine,  ...
>
> ... Does this mean that it's possible to create a document on a 2 meg 
> machine that can't be opened on a standard Mac Plus or Mac SE?
>
> ... Even MacWrite no longer limits document length to available memory.  

The operative feature is that FullWrite will warn the user if the document
is too large to open in a 1M partition.

The original MacWrite (2.2 and before) stored all of the document in memory
so it was possible to create a document on a FatMac (remember them? 512K)
that could not be opened on a think mac (128K).

The restriction for FullWrite is not too bad since it is on a chapter by
chapter basis.  Although in the future it would be nice to have FullWrite
be completely VM/paged.  It would be even nicer to have the Macintosh be
virtual memory/paged so that all of these problems would go away.  :-)

I have no connection with Claris except as a customer.
I have no connection with Ashton Tate except as a hugely satisfied customer
of FullWrite Professional.  

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