Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Observations on the Portable Message-ID: <1491@intercon.com> Date: 16 Oct 89 14:00:11 GMT References: <463b736d.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 17 In article <463b736d.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>, mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes: > The other fun thing was seeing how many programs try to use Color QuickDraw > on it because the portable has a higher machine number than a Mac II when > _SysEnvirons is called. The one that gave us the biggest headache was > NCSA Telnet 2.3. Actually, Telnet 2.3 doesn't call the Pallette Manager because the machine number is greater than a Mac II--it calls it on every machine! The thing is, this doesn't cause an error on a Mac Plus or SE, so no one ever noticed the bug... -- Amanda Walker "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General