Are we talking about OS 8.6 and above or OS X ?
We're talking about the classic Mac OS, not OS X.
Did some searching -- specifically temp mem was introduced in Mac OS 7.0. I thought it was during OS 8, but Inside Mac says otherwise.
Ref: Inside Macintosh: Memory, 1997 Ed.
Now, Mac OS X is a different beastie. It's FreeBSD underpinnings contains a modern memory manager that takes full advantage of the protection and virtual memory mechanisms of the PowerPC. Initial application memory is determined at link time. Additional memory is moved onto the process heap then allocated to the application dynamically on the fly -- IOW, it's all temp mem.
And I haven't seen the name of a program or version number that would utilize this.
AppleWorks GraphicConverter Photoshop Eudora Ircle AIM Y! IM iCab
the list goes on.
An app that does not use it: Netscape. That's why Netscape works sooo much better when you increase its size.
and I assumed Windoze still had protected memory.
Windoze has a few memory protection features implemented. But they're all easily violated.
- Dan.
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