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- From: keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Think Reference 2.0 Review
- Message-ID: <keith-210193231612@kip-50.taligent.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 07:31:27 GMT
- References: <D2150096.o2q2ry@sproul.sproul.com> <1993Jan21.174045.24812@novell.com> <1jn6paINNs7r@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1jn6paINNs7r@life.ai.mit.edu>, peterc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Peter
- Creath) wrote:
- >
- > [comments about Think Ref 2.0's astonishing 7.1MB disk footprint]
- >
- > I'd still like to see them do on-the-fly decompression so we could get
- > that down to 3 to 5 MB (of course you don't compress indexes, or if you do,
- > you load them all at once into RAM)
-
- I think that IS the compressed size. Here's what you get:
-
- AppleEvents
- AppleTalk
- Basic Toolbox
- DAM/Edition/PPC/Slot
- Online Help
- Sound Mgr
- Toolbox Index Pages
- WWSO Mgr
-
- "Basic Toolbox" is mostly what you got with TR 1.0. All the other databases
- contain new information. Additionally, "Basic Toolbox" contains the rest of
- the information that you wanted from IM VI.
-
- Compare this to the amount of information you get with SpInside Mac (14.2
- Meg), Inside Mac VI (21.4 Meg), and all the Technotes (12.8 Meg). With
- those products, you get pretty much the same information, but at many times
- the size of TR 2.0. If you want, you can also toss in 411 (16.3 Meg) and
- the combined totals of IM-Files, IM-Memory, IM-Processes, and IM-Devices
- (17.5 Meg).
-
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- Keith Rollin
- Phantom Programmer
- Taligent, Inc.
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