Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ames!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: sys disk 5.0 uhoh
Message-ID: <33750@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 89 06:20:46 GMT
References: <13247@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <33725@apple.Apple.COM> <13266@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <13266@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>
>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?
>
>
>Dave Whitney	A junior (well, a senior) in Computer Science at MIT
>dcw@athena.mit.edu  ...!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw  dcw@goldilocks.mit.edu
>I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.
>"This is MIT. Collect and 3rd party calls will not be accepted at this number."

Right action, wrong conclusion.

If you'll recall, one of the bugs in AppleWorks 2.0 is that it incorrectly
calls _DeskStartUp, a signal to all *NDAs* that the desktop environment
is present.  This is, to be polite, a blatant lie.  If any NDAs do desktop-
type things in their startup routines, the system could come crashing down.

AW 2.0 mostly works for people on IIgs's by accident - for some reason, the
_DeskStartUp call doesn't always get made.  A2-Central has published a patch
in the past, which basically involves looking for LDX #$0205, JSL $E10000.

AppleWorks 2.1 and later do not have the problem.



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