> Are you saying that some programs can use memory above what isallocated in Get Info ?
This isn't how it used to be. It used to be your app only got what was allocated in the get info section. So, yes, he is saying that has changed. I haven't verified this, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it, since that was one of the single most common complaints among s/w engineers way back when...
There were always API's for doing this, but you always told (by Apple) not to use them.
Right. According to "Inside Macintosh: Memory", the feature was there in System 6 if you ran MultiFinder, but the handles were not tracked at all. In System 7.0 it was made a true system service.
Its amazing to me that the Mac is one of the few that still exists in modern day with this kind of architecture. People talk about how Apple lost their market share and wut not, but, for this out dated architecture to still be around means that a lot of people somewhere liked something about it, and not just a little but, but enough to resist the evil temptations (until recently, cheap, fast, etc.).
Same here. It's always bugged me that the so-called "standard operating system features" listed in my college OS Design text books in 1980 STILL don't exist on our desktops! The only OS that included them all, AFAIK, was VAX/VMS - aka OpenVMS. The OS Design books joked about the way Unix did things... and today Unix, with few improvments, is the norm. It's as if the System Architects have gone into 20 years of hibernation... :\
- Dan.
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