--- Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still... Do you really need that ram charger/purger > thing with the mac os 8.x-9.x?
It depends on how you use your Mac. If you fire up a few apps in the morning and never exit them (intentionally!) until quitting time, then nope. If you're constantly opening and closing a dozen or so different apps all day you can run into trouble, depending on how good the apps are at cleaning up after themselves and all the other little bugaboos that have been with Mac memory management since day 1. It also depends on how much RAM you have to "burn" on memory leaks from badly behaving apps. This G3/233 has 160 megs RAM and most of the time I start Gerry's ICQ, then Word Perfect 3.5 then Netscape 4.78. (Our customer database doesn't play nicely with IE on some things.) As long as Netscape doesn't shoot itself with a Type 2 or 3 or "unknown" error, I can keep it going all day. But let Netscape or Gerry's ICQ explode a time or two and I have to reboot. I _really really_ want Jump Dev to make one final version of RAM Charger for OS 8.5 through 9.2.x! I've sent them e-mail on that subject, so have plenty of other people. Apple is >thisclose< to being done with "Classic" so they won't be deliberately busting 3rd party tech that Apple is too lazy to do themselves or too arrogant to license from someone who did it better. :P (Apple didn't do the menubar clock, Extentions Manager and some of the other bits that make Mac OS so good!) ===== "The earth swarms with inhabitants. Why then should nature, which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in the rest of the planets?" Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ICQ# 16024947 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
