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From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is MultiFinder running  (really, Apple backpatching Color QD)
Message-ID: <8258@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 88 21:01:29 GMT
References: <13829@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: resident visitor
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From article <13829@apple.Apple.COM>, by tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot):
>>Another thing, I would like to see the Color Quickdraw code patched for the
>>Plus/SE machines, so that the color calls would revert to the basic b/w calls.
>>This can't be too hard, can it?  Again, why write twice the code so that the
> 
> The reason this isn't done is because it would cost over 4K of system heap
> space.
> 

Really?  4k? out of 1 meg minimum on the Mac's that System 6.0
supports?

If this is the reason it isn't done, I respectfully suggest that it's
a decision that ought to be reversed, thus ensuring a lot more future 
software compatibility, and much less developing grief.

The Sound Manager was added last time (Sys 6.0); surely it takes (w/snd) a
similar amount of space.  I and others probably like it.  The
compatibility is probably worth a lot more.

Please!  In 7.0!  Thanks!


Clive Steward