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From: edward@pro-harvest.UUCP (Edward Floden)
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Date: 23 May 89 14:03:18 GMT
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Network Comment: to #1065 by pnet01!crash!trout.nosc.mil!pnet01!pro-nebulous!jim

CDAs can be loaded to or unloaded from memory at any time.

At AppleFest Boston, I picked up the "360 Desk Extender", from 360
MicroSystems, which does just that.  The Desk Extender looks a little like
Glen Bredon's Master CDA, where you may place up to 12 CDAs into a "Master"
CDA, thus freeing entries on the main Desk Accessories menu.  The Desk
Extender can have up to 12 "nodes" (master CDAs), each containing up to 56
CDAs.  The CDAs within a node can be configured to automatically load at boot,
or can be loaded into memory only when actually needed, and can be removed
from memory at any time.

Just to check if the 'remove from memory' option worked, I removed -all- of my
loaded CDAs (that were within an Extender node), and I regained 47K of free
memory.  The maximum block of memory available did not change, but the total
free memory increased.  (I checked the memory stats using Floyd Zink's Memory
NDA.)

The price of the 360 Desk Extender was $21 at AppleFest; I believe that the
SRP is $29.95.  (360 MicroSystems, PO Box 1192, Oviedo, FL 32765.  Sorry, I
don't have a current phone number.)

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