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- From: gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: INIT Idea/Request
- Keywords: INIT, NewHandle, Temporary Memory, Multifinder Memory
- Message-ID: <t7qnaga.gurgle@netcom.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 00:14:56 GMT
- References: <fd3yyt@rpi.edu>
- Organization: cellular
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- johnsd2@jec324.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
-
- >It occurs to me that it would be quite neat (to say the least) to get
- >rid of this memory zone stuff in the Macintosh by making NewHandle
- >act like TempNewHandle. Or more precisely, to make any call to NewHandle
- >result in a call to TempNewHandle, and if that fails, a normal call
- >to NewHandle.
-
- This was discussed at length some months ago. Some guy who was Smarter
- Than All the Rest of Us Put Together pointed out that this was going
- to make some existing applications go crazy. Some do brilliant things
- like figure out how much memory is available to them and then allocate
- it all in one big block and do their own allocation schemes within that
- block. MacPaint 2 is one that springs to mind. Or perhaps MacWrite II.
- One of those.
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- Pete Gontier // EC Technology // gurgle@netcom.com
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