32K barrier on the Mac...

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From: Glen A. Reece
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 1990 06:48

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Greetings again from AZ:

   I was having a discussion the other day with a friend who asked about
writing applications for the Mac.  I told him that the limitation to
application size was not memory but the 32K static data barrier that exists
on the Mac (64K on the PC I think).  Anyway, can someone please give a
good explanation of the reason for the 32K limit and reason as to why Apple
has not eliminated this constraint.

  Please respond to me directly, and if others are interested then I'll
post the responses back to comp.sys.mac

  Thankx in advance,

     - Glen A. Reece
       Industrial Fellow
       Artificial Intelligence Lab.
       Arizona State University

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From: reece@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glen A. Reece)
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Subject: 32K barrier on the Mac...
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Date: 3 Jun 90 06:48:15 GMT
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