Re: GS info (and Mac -> GS st

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 27 Dec 1997 15:10 -0500, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
wrote:

>In article brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) writes...
>
>> Steve Mentzer couldn't help but dribble:
>> !N(|  In addition, you will need to determine that amount of memory in
>>    | the  system. I think that 1.25MB was the minimum for using
>>    | sys601. Anything below that is useless.
>> 
>>Pretty much.  Sys601 won't *let* one boot up with less than that.
>
>    Actually, I got System 6.0.1's 'System Disk' to boot in a 768K 
>machine, the Finder desktop appeared at least. I'm quite positive 
>it would have crashed if I tried doing anything in there though, 
>it does *require* at least 1.125 MB of memory to operate (and more 
>if if you want to do anything productive).
>
>    Just thought that was an interesting bit of trivia. :-)

Well, you got me thinking so I just had to check things out.  I would
have tried it with a 768k machine but it would have been too much
hassle to remove my 4MB & 1MB card and reduce the 1MB to 512k to test
it.

Anyways, I just shift booted my IIgs, which is running System 6.01,
and using the About This Apple IIgs menu item under the Apple menu I
got the following results:

     Finder 418k
     System 411K
     Desk accessories zero K
     Setup files 59K

It looks to me that if you use a program launcher other than the
Finder and use small programs you could probably get away with running
a few things with System 6.01 on a IIgs with only 768k.

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