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Article #34604Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)
From: Brian Matthews
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 23:07
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 23:07
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Tim Binder (binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP) writes:
|On a slightly different note: One thing that really annoys me about the Mac
|is that it has taken Apple over 4 years to get the Mac to where the Lisa
|was when it was first introduced! The Lisa had only 512K of memory, yet
|supported a desktop much like MULTIFINDER now. Now, however, if you have
|1 MEG of RAM or less, don't even think about it. The same is becoming true
|for many applications. Are people just getting "sloppy" about memory usage,
|or is there something I'm missing?
Yes, badly. The Lisa was a virtual memory machine. Each application had
it's own 16Meg chunk of "memory", and the underlying OS paged things to
hard disk.
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Brian L. Matthews blm@cxsea.UUCP ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm
+1 206 251 6811 Computer X Inc. - a division of Motorola New Enterprises
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!cxsea!blm From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements) Message-ID: <2567@cxsea.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 88 23:07:07 GMT References: <813@tank.uchicago.edu> <6217@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Distribution: na Organization: Computer X Inc. Lines: 16