Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: some general Mac questions Message-ID: <8143@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 8 Jul 89 05:57:28 GMT References: <4830@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <8089@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <12498@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA Lines: 32 In article <12498@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes: > I certainly > wont bitch at Apple when MSWord 4 breaks under System 7.0, for example, since > Microsoft is notoriously bad at that. 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. That'll show 'em. > > -Ivan I didn't know that the system software "special cased" anything that Microsoft produces. Right now, I am running Oracle and then trying to run Excel 1.5. No go: Oracle has an INIT that grabs 400K of memory at startup time. Excel just puts up this little "fragmented memory" message. So to use 1.5, I have to remove the Oracle INIT (or figure out which keys to press to deactivate Oracle while still allowing the other INITs to load in. It's amazing what pressing the Option key at startup can do). As for Microsoft: they are improving. I currently have a copy of Microsoft Excel 2.2 beta 5. It will actually run on my machine! So what if it requires 1024K under MultiFinder to run (maybe the release will tune this down somewhat). The message bar at the bottom of the screen really annoys me, though. Luckily, you can turn it off. Looks to be a very nice product. -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)