Re: Apple and the Holy War

[bctimes@hotmail.com (Forrest)]

Somewhere, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>>Could you edit a 1 MByte file on AppleWorks?
>
>I am pretty certain you can.  You would need greater than
>1MB on your Apple II though.

Maximum of 250 pages per document x 66 lines x 78 characters maximum gives us 
a theoretical maximum AWP document size of 1,287,000 bytes.  Go to 
14-inch-long pages and that goes up a bit.

However, due to drawbacks in the design of the AW memory manager* you'll need 
much more than that -- there's a maximum number of chunks possible and the 
size of a chunk increases as the overall size of memory does.  Probably 8 megs 
will do it.  Randy Brandt managed to break that barrier in Deja II on the Mac 
(leaving me to wonder why it couldn't be done on the original...too late now I 
suppose).

That notwithstanding, if there's a more usable, more useful, better designed 
and more efficient general-purpose application than AW5.1 around I don't know 
what it is.

>Wasn't the IIe released a few months after the original
>IBM PC?

More than a year after.



(* Hey, it was designed in 1983 -- back when Bill thought 640K was as much as 
anyone would want and Steve thought that 128K was all anyone should be 
-allowed- to have...)