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From: gandreas@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Glenn Andreas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New Mac Programmer -- HELP!  *Commentary added
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Date: 17 Mar 89 17:03:39 GMT
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In article <1595@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>Book, smook. Its about time we have an electronic version! How about a
>Hypercard stack with references linked from here to next Wednesday.


Nice idea, but there is one big problem - memory.  Remember that this whole
thread started with help for beginning programmers.  Now you want them to
have to be running HC whenever they are programming.  So you need to be
running MF.  And have 2.5 Megs or more.  And a large screen (since many
times I want to look at my code as well as at the reference).  And a CD rom
with this all on.  At work I've got a IIx with lots of memory (and I could
steal a CD rom), so this would be great and wonderful.  But at home, I've
just got a Mac Plus, One Meg - which is where I do most of my development
work.  There is no way that I (and I suspect many programmers, especially
beginners) could use this system.

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