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Pretty sure even with virtual memory (which was actually added sometime in the System 7 days), you still could manually set the minimum and desired memory sizes
by sgerenser 3y ago
Pretty sure even with virtual memory (which was actually added sometime in the System 7 days), you still could manually set the minimum and desired memory sizes for each app. Maybe it made less of a difference than it used to, but I still remember tweaking those values for certain apps (like trying to open a large file in Photoshop) even after MacOS 8 and 9 were out. MacOS X was a breath of fresh air by comparison.
- shadowgovt 3y agoYou definitely could. I can't remember right now what effect that had, because the whole thing was running atop a virtual memory layer at that point... I can't recall if it was a lie (i.e. feature existed but had no effect) or if it had some effect on how long it'd be before an app started resorting to paging out RAM pages.