>Posted by: "Maurits van de Kamp" > >I liked the OS 9 attitude better. > >I'm glad my car doesn't ask me for fuel injection parameters every >time I start it. The system knows best and will do it more >efficiently than you. The system does not always know what's best.. it can't forsee every possible demand. While your statement may be true in a generic sense I've found from experience (on four platforms) that giving the user some control over memory management, system swap files and other performance related parameters results in better performance of applictions that perform -real time- tasks. HW