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From: goldman@apple.UUCP (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: support for older machines & Re: MultiFinder RAMDisks
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Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 02:04:54 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 02:04:54 1987
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In article <2957@ihlpf.ATT.COM> stuart@ihlpf.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson) writes:
>MultiFinder is NOT a memory hog.  It does a LOT in only 80K or so.
>
MultiFinder proper takes up only 37K.  Backgrounder, which is the background
printing controller, takes up about 12k more (but is only there if you have
installed background printing).

>I have had 3 or 4 applications running at the same time on a 1meg
>Mac+.  The size of the applications is what counts.
>
In fact, you can run 3-4 applications + the Finder on a 512ke.  Try using
MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw, WriteNow, or Word 1.05.  Each of these was
designed to run on a 128k Mac and therefore can run in a 96k partition.
You might have to lower the Finder size a bit to do so.

I would, however
>agree that HyperCard is a Hog.  It can be run reduced, but it really
>eats memory.
>
HyperCard can actually run in less than the 750K minimum partition that is
specified in the SIZE resource it is shipped with.  However, 750K is the
minimum if you want to do scripting.  If you simply want to browse, I
believe that somewhere around 550-600K will do.  Therefore, you CAN run
both MultiFinder and HyperCard on a 1 meg MacPlus.

NOTE:  It is probably not a very good idea to change the size for an app to
lower than its minimum size if you don't have to.  In any case, you might want
to make a Backup before doing so.