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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ready Set Go 4.5 bug.
Message-ID: <1265@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 18:27:51 GMT
References: <32480@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <32480@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>It was announced on CompuServe last night that Letraset has acknowledged a
>pretty nasty bug in Ready Set Go 4.5. It seems that Superclock (or any INIT
>that plays with the menubar in the background) causes problems with their
>memory management and will cause RSG to crash.

I'm glad they acknowledged it -- but this is pretty much like when
they "acknowledged" that 4.5 isn't compatible with the RAM cache.

What on earth could those bozos be doing with their "virtual memory"
scheme?  Rewriting whole sections of the OS?

>This is a bug I'd been arguing with them over for months before I gave up.
>I'm glad they finally found it. Now I don't need to worry about hosing my
>hard disk under deadline again (I hope). If you're using RSG 4.5, better
>plan on keeping an eye on your INITs.
>
>(now, the question is *why* this is true, and what they're doing that could
>be sensitive to it.... But that's another argument completely).

I suspect it's because they recruited some of the Word 3.0
programmers.  RSG 4.5 is, on the surface, a fine product, but I was
disgusted at the number of bugs that were added since 4.0.

And they still deny that there's an upgrade.  I guess I just have to
keep waiting on the mail, hoping that the upgrade notice arrives
sometime before I have an important project to do.

They'll probably charge for it, too, which is fine by me because it'll
be the last straw that forces me to go out and buy Xpress instead.

(Sorry for the tone of this article, but as a long-standing defender
of RSG I'm disillusioned and not a little angry at how 4.5 has been
handled.) 

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