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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GSOS
Message-ID: <10202@claris.com>
Date: 23 May 89 11:50:47 GMT
References: <2822@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <2822@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, by blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak):
> In article <8905220016.AA08754@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-avalon!pro-nebulous!jim@nosc.mil writes:
>> [...]
>>Why is it necessary for the GS to load Desk accessories into memory?
>> [...]

> 	No... There are programs (including an NDA, I believe) out there that
> let you load a DA into memory whenever you want to. As someone else pointed
> out, you have a number of other options as well. I'm not real familiar with
> any of the programs to load a DA in after a boot, but that's because I wrote
> a shell utility to do just that (makes debugging a DA much easier!).

Then there's some DA's out there written with this problem/situation in mind:
with dynamic segments.  Yeah, they take up some memory, but not nearly as much
as without dynamic segments.  This has to be done, obviously, on the
programmer's end.


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