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From: dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek)
Subject: Re: Is MultiFinder running  [was Re: System 6.0 breaks my cdevs! revisited]
Message-ID: <88Jul21.184622edt.457@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <227@hodge.UUCP> <3988@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <5212@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <46753DN5@PSUVM> <13829@apple.Apple.COM> <478@esquire.UUCP> <480@esquire.UUCP> <14108@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 88 17:26:09 EDT

In article <14108@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Ed Tecot) writes:

>Add in the additional data structures and globals that
>would have to be added so that these calls would make sense (cWmgrPort, etc.)
>and you've exceeded 14K.  And we haven't even discussed making glue for the
>Palette Manager and the color portion of the Menu Manager (which would have
>to be done as well).  And not to mention a few months of an engineers time
>for code which does effectively nothing!

   Effectively nothing!!!
   I can hardly believe I read this!  As it stands now, the efforts of that
lost software engineer will be multiplied many times over by the piles
of effort expended by anybody who tried to make their application
run on both the Mac II in color and older Macs.  Furthermore, applications
will be larger & harder to maintain and Mac II applications without
Mac SE/+ compatibility may even appear.  A (possibly optional) 14K
and a few months of time seems a very small price to pay to avoid
this chaos and loss of consistency.

>
>For comparison, the new styled TextEdit weighs in at less than 10K, the
>Notification Manager is 3K, the Sound Manager <4K.
>
   Great!  Spend 10K on some minor texedit features (although I like 'em)
or 4K (plus the sounds space) for some cutsie sounds, but 
"economize" on the 14K that would prevent a major system
incompatibility from occurring!

  Gregory Dudek
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