Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!shap 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 Article-I.D.: sfsup.2442 Posted: Thu Dec 3 12:44:03 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 21:34:20 EST References: <1927@unc.cs.unc.edu> <6664@apple.UUCP> <5104@oberon.USC.EDU> <5488@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA Lines: 26 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