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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX and MF
Keywords: mac plus, macminix, multifinder
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Date: 4 Nov 90 20:58:56 GMT
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n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) writes:


>Well, similar results exists for me.  I'm running 6.0.4 on a mac Plus
>with 4 megs of ram.  I just recently installed a fresh 6.0.4 on my system.
>With no inits and nothing else running under multifinder (except the finder
>itself), MacMINIX causes an Illegal Address error and drops into macsbug 
>"almost".  The crash is swift and painless, and leaves no clues.  After it
>drops into macsbug, macsbug does not respond either.  The only "key" that
>works is the reset button...


>  Any clues, Joe?  I seen many others with this problem.  

Well, I just checked on my Mac II and Mac IIcx, using the boot disk right out of
the box, and it ran fine (Sys 6.0.3, Finder 6.1).  Obviously, these are not
Mac+'s, so I will try to dig one up and see if I can find the problem. 

Joe Pickert