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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Suitcase II Upgrade  (Revisited)
Keywords: Suitcase II, upgrade,  Pyro! 3.0
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Date: 9 Nov 88 15:44:44 GMT
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In article <7576@well.UUCP> brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher) writes:
>
>Generally, Suitcase / Suitcase II does not reduce RAM requirements, given
>a constant set of resources (fonts, DAs, etc.) available.  I.e., moving
>resources from the System to a suitcase file does not reduce RAM requirements.
>
>The belief that the contents of the System (including fonts, DAs, etc.) are
>continuously RAM-resident is common but incorrect.  The System is a
>disk respository of resources; each resource is loaded into RAM only when
>it is actually used.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have a second monitor of some kind that
showed you how your actions affect memory usage? I became interested in
this discussion after reading in Macintosh II Report about Word having to
reside in the first megabyte of memory. The authors (Michael Swaine and
Thom Hogan) didn't suggest Suitcase as an alternative. They only pointed
out that you were asking for crashes if you tried to run both Word and
Excel (which presumably has the same constraints) at the same time.

I deduced from their information that I should start Word first. Of course
they are also under the impression that the size of the system file 
determines how much memory you have left for Word or Excel (subtract System
size from 1024. That's what you have left.)

Steve Brecher (author of Suitcase) along with one or two Apple programmers
who answered questions in MacUser or MacWorld both say that you use the
memory only when you use the resource. I presume that when I use two fonts
Times and Courier, I have used two resources. 

I recently took out all but one or two small point sizes of fonts. Does that
make a difference in the size of the resource I've used. (In other words,
my documents use several sizes of Times, but I've only installed a small
(10 pt) size. Am I using less memory by making the system generate the 
larger sizes. If it's all the same, I'll put the larger point sizes back in
the system file and have a better looking display.

Actually, I'd really like to move this discussion to how Word uses memory,
but I never see anyone discussing things like that. Does anyone know how
to use Word for maximum memory efficiency given the style constraints I
need to use (fair number of styles, two fonts, imported Canvas drawings)?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Shirley Kehr