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Article #28450Re: FullWrite Professional
From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Tue, 24 May 1988 21:23
Date: Tue, 24 May 1988 21:23
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In article <537@aplcomm.UUCP> gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (John R. Gersh) writes: >FWP _does_ run just fine on a 1 Meg Mac Plus! I've been using it for a >week and a half now. It won't run under Multifinder, and if you use a >lot of memory-grabbing INITs you may have problems, but otherwise it's >not a problem. It does load an entire chapter into memory, so in 1 Meg >you are limited to chapters about 30 pages long, less with lots of >graphics. It needs about 700k of free memory to run. > >If you set up your preferences to do so, it will even warn users on >machines with more than 1 Meg when their chapter is about to become too >large to open on a 1 Meg machine, very handy if you don't know what >machine a recipient of your document might be using. Can this be right? Does this mean that it's possible to create a document on a 2 meg machine that can't be opened on a standard Mac Plus or Mac SE? If so, then that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Even MacWrite no longer limits document length to available memory. Can anyone who knows for sure confirm this?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional Keywords: Fullwrite memory Message-ID: <416@esquire.UUCP> Date: 24 May 88 21:23:34 GMT References: <8805172016.AA09499@decwrl.dec.com> <53610@sun.uucp> <1713@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <537@aplcomm.UUCP> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Distribution: na Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 20