Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!scott
From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS Paintworks Gold & DAs
Message-ID: <7536@claris.com>
Date: 21 Dec 88 17:05:48 GMT
References: <8812201229.aa26695@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <8812201229.aa26695@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons"):
> suspect your problem is just the amount of RAM available to PWG: it's
> a big-time memory hog.  Apart from the space the program takes
> itself, the space taken by the OS, and the space taken by the tools,
> one of the first things PWG does it request a 640K (!) block.  

Indeed.  And the block has to be within a certain range of memory (has to
start in somewhere [don't recall exactly] around banks 2-C or so.  Even if
you have 8 Mb of RAM, but it can't get the memory it wants, it simply gives
up, not even calling the system death manager, but executing an inline
break instruction.  This means that if you try to run it after some other
application which has loaded tools into the banks that it wants, it won't
run.


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