Rev Classic Crashing

[Brad Allen]

>As a demonstration, set the allocation to the default (15,000) and 
>run Revolution. Immediately switch to the Finder and select About 
>This Computer on the Apple menu. You should see Revolution taking 
>something in excess of 15,000 -- maybe 20,000 to 30,000, depending 
>on circumstances. This is because Revolution (like many other apps 
>on the Mac) allocates memory dynamically -- as dynamically as is 
>possible on Mac OS 9.

Most other apps that use dynamic memory add to the system heap size. 
Rev's behavior is very unusual for a Mac app, at least in the way it 
increases its own RAM allocation rather than adding to the size of 
the system heap. I've never seen another Mac app do that.
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