Digital BW, The Print

Editor P.O.V. Image Service writes:

> The reason Adobe has used it's own scratch file system has been to avoid
> precisely the RAM size limitations.

The reason Adobe uses its own scratch file system and memory management
is that the old Mac OS had such poor memory management that Photoshop
couldn't work otherwise--and even though OS X and recent versions of
Windows are fully capable of managing memory more effectively than
Photoshop, Adobe has never wanted to spend the money to fix its
memory-management code.  I still have trouble with Photoshop (5.x) under
XP because of this.