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Scott A. McIntyre writes
> I recently took delivery of Appsoft Image version 1.0 for the NeXT.
> Everytime I launch the application my swapfile grows by 5 megabytes,
> and that's without opening a single image.  Opening an image makes
> it grow another 2-4 every few mintues...opening more than
> one image, well, it's not useable.

From the information that I have received, Appsoft Image does not "tile"
its memory usage, so memory consumption is proportional to the size of
the files opened for editing.  You should confirm this with Appsoft,
since we don't have a copy of Image for testing.

Our forthcoming product, Photosynthesis, uses a memory management model
based on "windowing" or "tiling" the image, so you only use memory for
what's being displayed on the screen.  The underlying engine was developed
for use on small-memory systems like Macintosh as well as Sun workstations,
so this has been a priority in its design.  In our experience testing it,
opening many-megabyte image files does not cause the swap file to grow.

Photosynthesis, for those who don't know, is a full-featured image editing
program that we are bringing to market.  It is based on the Artisan engine
from MediaLogic.  Look for Photosynthesis to be available in coming months
for $195.00 suggested retail.  We don't have an exact release date for it
yet.

You can get on our mailing list for further information as it becomes
available by sending mail to "info@rightbrain.com"

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