XtoF on Nostr: I read this excellent article explaining how the memory is managed in "classical" Mac ...

I read this excellent article explaining how the memory is managed in "classical" Mac OS: https://whitefiles.org/mac/pgs/m02.htm

The way it is done is extremely primitive and totally exposed to the user.
Each application asks for a predefined amount of memory, that can be overridden by the user and that's about it. It cannot claim more memory once launched! If it needs more, it will stop with a "Not enough memory" message! If it needs less, precious memory is wasted.
And Virtual memory is only used to dump application memory as a whole when it goes out of focus!

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