[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Is MultiFinder running

clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) (07/14/88)

From article <13829@apple.Apple.COM>, by tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot):
>>Another thing, I would like to see the Color Quickdraw code patched for the
>>Plus/SE machines, so that the color calls would revert to the basic b/w calls.
>>This can't be too hard, can it?  Again, why write twice the code so that the
> 
> The reason this isn't done is because it would cost over 4K of system heap
> space.
> 

Really?  4k? out of 1 meg minimum on the Mac's that System 6.0
supports?

If this is the reason it isn't done, I respectfully suggest that it's
a decision that ought to be reversed, thus ensuring a lot more future 
software compatibility, and much less developing grief.

The Sound Manager was added last time (Sys 6.0); surely it takes (w/snd) a
similar amount of space.  I and others probably like it.  The
compatibility is probably worth a lot more.

Please!  In 7.0!  Thanks!


Clive Steward