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Re:Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide by kalleboo on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:11AM (#6984640)
> I suspect the real reason for this weird resolution is boring memory constraints.

Things were indeed very tight

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacPaint_Evolutio...

  At the worst case, there was only 
  about 100 bytes free in MacPaint's heap
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Re:Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide by gaius on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:24AM (#6984684)
The finished MacPaint consisted of 5,804 lines of Pascal code, augmented by another 2,738 lines of assembly language, which compiled into less than .05 megabytes of executable code

To put that into perspective, the date command alone on this Linux box is 49k.

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Re:Why MacPaint's Original Canvas was 416 Pixels Wide by colomon on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:17AM (#6984910)
The one that breaks me is the Clock application on my Android phone is using 20.29 MB of the phone's memory at the moment. What could it possibly be doing to justify that?
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