info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (04/26/84)
Date: Saturday, 21 April 1984 17:38:25 EST
From: uw-beaver!Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.arpa
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.arpa
Subject: 128K isn't enough
Has anyone noticed a trend? MacWrite, MS-BASIC, and now MacPascal seem to
suffer severely from lack of user memory. This shows up in the form of not
being able to have MacWrite documents longer than 10 pages, not being able
to have MS-BASIC programs longer than 14K (25K if you are willing to put up
with having the Mac go to the disk every time you scroll the List window),
and (according to the Sieve message) not being able to dimension an array of
more than a few hundred elements in MacPascal.
I thought the original idea was that all applications should be written to
be useful on a 128K machine. Oh well...at least the 128K of memory serves
as an upper bound on program size (assuming no swapping of code segments).
Hopefully these programs will be able to take advantage of 512K Macs which
will result in >400K user memory.
-- Thomas.Newton@CMU-CS-Spice