SocraticGadfly: Another reason to hate Mac OS X — no application memory control

May 21, 2007

Another reason to hate Mac OS X — no application memory control

On older versions of the Mac OS, unlike with PCs, you or I the user could allocate the RAM each application used, on a control panel.

I see you can’t do that now, either.

So, just how much did Steve Gates castrate Macs to make them Unix-compatible? And, was it worth it?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

in Mac OS X additional memory is dynamically allocated to an application once it needs it. So there's no need to manually give a program more memory.

Gadfly said...

I still like the manual controllability on older Mac OS's; within the minimum and preferred parameters, the OS would still allocate based on the preferences and what programs were open.

Sorry, but for all the advances of OS X, I still am less than fully happy at what was surrendered.

Anonymous said...

Get with the times man.