david@wucs.UUCP (David) (07/10/85)
I'm interested in hearing about experiences people have had with: [1] Memory Upgrades Beyond 512K - On page 78 of the August MacWorld, Micro Conversions claims that their 1 Meg 'linear RAM' upgrade is 'recognized by the Mac finder'. In a recent posting, someone said that they had just upgraded from 128K to 2M, and that he could access 1M from the finder and the other 1M as a RAMdisk and that he would be able to use the full 2M as soon as he got a PROM upgrade. To what degree can various programs take advantage of this additional RAM? Can the switcher load several very large applications? Does anyone know how the ROM upgrade might affect this (if it ever comes out) ? [2] Double Sided Drive (by Haba, I think) I've seen some references to this, but don't know any details. Is it vaporware? If it exists how well does it work with the finder and other software? [3] Neon From the Neon ad and the review in the August MacWorld, Neon looks like the best thing since pulldown menus. Has anyone used it to develop serious applications? Is the class nesting handled via a tree structured Forth dictionary? Would Neon be a useful tool for implementing a program that must perform CPU intensive calculations on a data structure that is likely to change; i.e. does the implementation of the object oriented features add additional levels of code causing a significant decrease in performance as compared to a standard threaded code Forth implementation, or is most of the additional overhead of the object oriented stuff handled in the Neon compiler. I want flexible data structures with high performance (doesn't everyone?). Any reviews or other information on Neon would be especially appreciated as Kriya is apparently only selling direct. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions expressed above are my own and do not neccesarily reflect those of my employer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- AdThanksVance David. David Burstyn UUCP: ihnp4!wucs!david or david@wucs.UUCP Computer Systems Lab CSNET: wucs!david@seismo.ARPA%csnet-relay Washington University ARPANET: wucs!david@seismo.ARPA St. Louis, MO 63130 520 Lopata Hall, (314) 889-4672