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From: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: News From Home: LSC 3.0 and Mac II Arrive
Keywords: LightspeedC, THINK, Mac II, No Real Info
Message-ID: <5039@claris.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 14:00:12 GMT
References: <429@dbase.UUCP> <584@pedro.UUCP>
Reply-To: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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If you have only 512K, you probably are going to have a problem with LSP 2.0
as well.  I don't have it yet, but saw the alpha version at Boston and seem
to recall a hardware requirement of 1MB (could be wrong on this, but I don't
think so).  As I recall, LSP 1.11 was barely usable on 512K in that you
don't have any room around for INITs, etc.  Of course, you could run 1.11 with
System 3.2, but I'm willing to bet that 2.0 will require System 4.1 or some
later release because of their use of popup menus -- this will pretty much
alienate the 512K market.  As people (read that, potential sales) demand
more features and faster performance, products will get larger and take
advantage of new OS capabilities.  This will gradually disenfranchise those
parts of the customer base who are unable or unwilling to keep up with the
technology.  The folks at Think/Symantec try very hard to not orphan these
folks, but in some cases it is unavoidable if they are to remain a viable
operation (read profit-making).  Most (not all, but most) large Mac software
development houses weigh the impact on sales of not supporting the lower-end
machines very seriously.  I know that when I was with Ashton-Tate that it
wasn't until about 6 months before ship that the bullet was finally bitten
concerning 512Ke and Lisa.  We wanted to support them, but the feature list
precluded it.

Dennis Cohen
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!