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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: some general Mac questions
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Date: 8 Jul 89 00:08:33 GMT
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>As an aside, it is my understanding
>that just about everything Microsoft has out now will break, since the
>system software will stop special-casing Microsoft software that needs to
>run in the first meg of memory.

The first meg problem was Excel only, and it's fixed in Excel 2.2
(supposedly. I don't have my copy yet). Word 4.0 will run under A/UX 1.1,
because I've done it, and Excel 2.2 is supposed to be A/UX compatible. If
you can run under A/UX (which requires 32bit clean, amongst other things)
you're actually a long way towards full compatibility -- so it looks like
Microsoft is making headway. 


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