Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!joyce!sri-unix!hplabs!nsc!voder!apple!tecot From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Is MultiFinder running [was Re: System 6.0 breaks my cdevs! revisited] Message-ID: <14109@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Jul 88 01:40:53 GMT References: <227@hodge.UUCP> <3988@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <5212@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <46753DN5@PSUVM> <13829@apple.Apple.COM> <478@esquire.UUCP> <480@esquire.UUCP> <14108@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: tecot@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Ed Tecot) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article <14108@apple.Apple.COM> I wrote: >ONE reason this isn't done is because it would cost OVER 14K of system heap >space. I forgot to add that such a change might not even work! By necessity, the trap table would have to be moved to a completely new location. The addition of these traps would make the Mac Plus and SE look much more like a II. Some applications that don't run on a II now would most likely fail with such a change. I can see it now: "System 7.0 sucks because so-and-so crashes". Is such a change worth the loss of these applications? I'd be inclined to bet that most of you would say yes. I'd also bet that the other million-and-a-half (my guess) Mac users would say no. Who would you support? _emt