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Re: [MacPerl] Text editors?



On 2:14 PM 12/18/00 Ronald J Kimball
<rjk@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:59:48AM -0600, Jay Bedsole wrote:
> > Both Alpha and BBEdit don't have limits on file size. You're
> > limited only by your available disk space.
> 
> I don't know if Alpha works the same way, but BBEdit loads files into
> the temp heap, so you are also limited by available memory.

The Mac OS memory manager will not allocate a contiguous block of memory
larger than physical memory.  Like the speed of light, it applies to
everyone :-).

-- 
Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>

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