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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski)
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Subject: Re: Problem with STV4 on MacIIfx
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Date: 30 Apr 91 15:42:42 GMT
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whitney@saturn.sdsu.edu (Roger Whitney) writes:

>I recently tried to run Smalltalk v4 from ParcPlace on a Macintosh IIfx with 
>Apples 8-24GC graphics accelerator card.  All Smalltalk windows were 
>black and there was a continuous stream of unhandled exception windows.  
>The identical image, interpreter, and system works fine on a Mac II.  I find it 
>hard to believe that ST v4 does not run on an Mac IIfx.  Does anyone know of 
>any problems running ST v4 on either a Mac IIfx or the 8-24GC graphics 
>accelerator card?

>roger whitney
>whitney@sdsu.edu

I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that the 8-24GC is busting the low-level
graphics primitives.  It does similar stuff to other programs.
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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |   you must first understand recursion.
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