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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)
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Date: 18 Nov 88 23:07:07 GMT
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Tim Binder (binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP) writes:
|On a slightly different note: One thing that really annoys me about the Mac
|is that it has taken Apple over 4 years to get the Mac to where the Lisa
|was when it was first introduced! The Lisa had only 512K of memory, yet
|supported a desktop much like MULTIFINDER now. Now, however, if you have
|1 MEG of RAM or less, don't even think about it. The same is becoming true
|for many applications. Are people just getting "sloppy" about memory usage,
|or is there something I'm missing?

Yes, badly.  The Lisa was a virtual memory machine.  Each application had
it's own 16Meg chunk of "memory", and the underlying OS paged things to
hard disk.

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