How Small can the System be?

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From: Jim Meiss
Date: Wed, 21 May 1986 16:15

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 	I recall seeing an article in which someone claimed to have removed
some of the resources from system 3.X to make it smaller.  Apparently
many of the resources in the new system are there to make it compatible with
the old ROM...why should those with the new ROM carry around all those extra
resources?
	Which resources can be safely removed?? How small can the system be?
I found that 3.1.1 is about 70k when all desk accessories and all fonts but
the privileged 4 are removed.
	Does anybody know if Apple is going to release a Mac+ version of the
system, that is indeed smaller? I have seen a beta test version of 3.2 (e.g.
3.2b4) and it isn't any smaller!!


							Jim Meiss
							ut-ngp

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From: jdm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Jim Meiss)
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Subject: How Small can the System be?
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 12:15:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 12:15:32 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 24-May-86 02:49:20 EDT
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: System 3.X, Mac+