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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need some MF help
Message-ID: <6849@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 89 02:34:25 GMT
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>>         ApplicationTrap ( ... ); this trap would be guaranteed to never
>> be used by Apple but the application would have license to patch it. 
>
>What would you do with this?  The only thing it seems good for is to allow 
>2-byte subroutine calls in an application, which would be much slower than 
>the usual calls.  This might have been a good idea for the 128K Mac, but 
>today I can't imagine that you would save enough RAM space to make the 
>performance hit worthwhile.
>
>Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
>Object Specialist

What if one wanted an app to talk to code preloaded by an INIT, hmm?

Can you say cheap IPC? I thought you could.


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