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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: sys disk 5.0 uhoh
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Date: 5 Aug 89 03:16:04 GMT
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In article <33725@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes:
>In article <13247@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>>um, just how much memory does Appleworks 2.0 need to run? I have 519k
>>free ram (1.25MB total), and Appleworks won't run.
>
>Gee...what happens?  Specific error messages/behavior would be helpful.

I get the title page, and loading stops. No bells, just frozen. The
interrupt to enable the control panel is killed, but the 3.5 drive
eject button works. Pressing ^-reset reboots. I can't really give
better details as I have no utilities like background debuggers or
whatnot.

I slowly deactivated DAs, and Appleworks once again works with 575k
free. I thought that AW only needed 128k (or even as little as 64k) to
run. What gives?

I've noticed other (very minor) bugs with 5.0. If one makes a
selection box in the Finder very small (less than a few pixels wide or
high) the box isn't a box, but rather some sort of mess.

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