[comp.sys.mac.programmer] MPW 3.0 on a 1 meg Mac?

jln@accuvax.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (11/30/88)

Is it really true that MPW 3.0 will not run at all on a 1 meg Mac?
I understand that you need lots of memory to run SADE, but I can live
without it.  I would need to have MacsBug running, but I can get rid
of all INITs, and of course I'd be using SoloFinder, not MultiFinder.

I currently use MPW 2.0 on my 1 meg SE at home and on my 2.5 meg SE at
work without problems, although on my home machine it's very slow and I 
surely wish I had more horsepower.  I'd like to upgrade to 3.0 on both 
machines, mostly to get the new and improved C compiler, but I can't 
afford more memory on my home SE.  It's not feasible to upgrade just my
work SE, since I understand that there's lots of incompatibilities 
between the 2.0 and 3.0 C compilers.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University

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levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (12/01/88)

In article <10050054@accuvax.nwu.edu> jln@accuvax.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
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|Is it really true that MPW 3.0 will not run at all on a 1 meg Mac?

The shell has gone from 229K to 463K.
C has gone from 233K to 312K.

Because of segmentation, this is of course not a direct indication of
how much memory is required; but I don't think I'm going to go find a
1Meg Mac to try it on.

BTW, It doesn't look like you can run MPW, your application, and SADE
simultaneously in a 2.5M Mac either; SADE (which is 574K) also wants
1024K to run.  This means you have to quit MPW to debug.  Or buy yet
more memory.

	/JBL

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