on 4/21/02 6:49 AM, Jim Witte at jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us wrote:
> Why is there the 8/32K limit to the size of a single note? Is it a
> kind of "block size" of sorts, making a partial 32K note less efficient
> to store/search than a partial 8K note (which would explain why Apple
> didn't support 64K or larger notes)?
Wasn't it originally a heap issue on the earliest MPs? As you write longer
notes, the system begins to slooow dooown--at least on older Newts. I think
that was more the issue than storage, but I've been wrong before (usually
am, in fact) :-)
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