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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: system 6.0.7. crashes
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Date: 26 Nov 90 17:31:04 GMT
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In article <25971@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, espen@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Espen H. Koht) writes:
> In article <ARILD.90Nov25134314@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de> arild@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Arild Hestvik) writes:
> >I just installed system 6.0.7. I occasionally get crashes, with the
> >message
> >
> >  Sorry, a system error just occurred   
> >    corprocessor not installed
> 
>    If you are using a IIsi, it sounds like this problem relates to
> the fact that the IIsi is the first Mac which has a 68030 processor
> without having a coprocessor.  Some software manufacturers, despite
> warnings from Apple, used to make programs that assumed that if you had
> a 68030 in your Mac, there would also be a coprocessor present,

*ahem*, I've had this bomb a few times on my SE/30, including from apps
like ResEdit and (I believe) the Finder...

I have a feeling it's sometimes kicked off from low memory conditions...


>  If you are using system 6.0.7 on an old computer (which you shouldn't)
>this error message is probably caused by something which has nothing to
>do with a coprocessor.

Why shouldn't I use the latest System software on my "old" SE/30?


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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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