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In article <1989Sep16.030547.10105@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>General gripe:
>
>All this neat new stuff -- Multifinder (not that new any more), ATM, System
>7.0, etc. -- is great.  But us people with 1MB Macs are rapidly being
>disenfranchised.  Heck, with the Grappler LQ stuff loaded I can't run
>HyperCard.  Add ATM to the System as well, and I probably won't be able to run
>a word processor with all the printer stuff loaded.  Which means that I may as
>well not have a printer in the first place.

I can't speak for system 7.0 - though everything has said you'll need 2 megs
of RAM or better to run, but ATM has been designed from the start to work 
on a 1 meg MacPlus. The amount of RAM is uses will be around 100K for allowing
you to use several fonts/sizes at the same time. This is very small if you
take a look at the sizes of the pre-built fonts. You have full control to
adjust this cache size up or down. I ran ATM on a 2-floppy MacPlus with
an Imagewriter and Word 3.02 last week and had no problems. My document wasn't
very large (10 or so pages), but Word is designed to keep only those pages
being used in RAM, so theoretically it shouldn't have any problems.

Trying to run Applications such as Hypercard, FullWrite, 4D, and others on a
virgin 1 meg machine is a big problem - one that the respective authors are
dealing with if reports/information I've heard is correct. ATM adds a lot of
functionality for (what we hope) a small price. If users really need ATM or
the other applications, RAM prices of $89 a meg make it a more realistic
alternative to get 2.5 megs of RAM into your machine. I don't want this to
sound like I'm saying upgrade. We are doing our best to shrink ATM to fit in
a tiny amount of memory, but I want to pass on that the RAM prices are getting 
lower and lower every week (and I thought I got a great deal last year for $200
a SIMM :-).

Hope this helps clarify the situation in regards to ATM.

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Brian Bezanson						bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems