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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Changes in Word 4.0a
Keywords: Word, 4.0a, upgrade
Message-ID: <39883@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 90 05:02:03 GMT
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dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) writes:

>There was recently some talk about Word 4.0a.  I'm just curious about
>what changes they made to it besides better handling of Expressionist
>and MacDraw.

It also includes some fixes for compatibility problems with the IIci --
turns out they were doing some memory management no-nos with fake handles in
the menu code, and it broke when the IIci memory management hardware came out.

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