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From: shap@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: support for older machines & Re: MultiFinder RAMDisks
Message-ID: <2442@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:44:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 12:44:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 21:34:20 EST
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Summary: Can we tone this down a little

In article <5488@oberon.USC.EDU>, kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu.UUCP writes:
.....

I think that this has gone on long enough, and that everyone,
including you, Mr. Kurtzman, is overreacting.

While I think it is debatable that Hypercard is 'Standard Software,'
the whole discussion has missed the point. Hypercard isn't the problem.
Multifinder, or rather multitasking, is. If you want to multitask, and
you want to run many large applications, and you don't want to pay
for memory management (which costs a lot, still), then you have
to give in somewhere.

While HyperCard could be made smaller, as a Mac programmer I feel
confident in saying that it could not be made smaller very easily, nor
very significantly, without a *lot* more work. Would you rather
have waited another year?

... Ah well, I hadn't intended to get into that conversation. What I
did want to say is that there are no conspiracies going on, and it
is in mostly Mr. Kurtzman's willingness to take offense which has
generated all of the flames at him. Please gentlemen, would ALL of
you go find another sandbox to fight in? This discussion could be
profitable, but it isn't.

Jon Shapiro