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From: an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez)
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Subject: Re: Norton Utils and Excel
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In article <33436@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
> ps: has anyone looked to see *why* Excel 1.5 barfs in memory above
> a meg?  I'm having a hard time imagining how one could make a Mac
> program do this.  I could understand, sort of, if the program was
> ported over from DOS, but that's not the case with Excel, right?

The story I heard a while back was that the development system used at 
Microsoft used 20 bits for addressing. This was all that was needed, since 
no computer had more than 640K of RAM.


David Gutierrez
an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard