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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.0 Rock Solid? Right... Reproducable crashes
Message-ID: <1991May15.184401.1813@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 May 91 18:44:01 GMT
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Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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weave@brahms.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:

>7.0 Rock Solid?  When they say stuff like that, they raise your
>expectations. I have had it crash several times on me since I got 
>System 7 yesterday. Several I can reproduce.

>3)  Here's an interesting one.  I made an alias of the trash. Wanted to
>    put it into my root window for easier access. Double click on 
>    trash alias in root window, entire machine freezes.  I reproduced
>    this error THREE times. (Well, once it worked, but a second double
>    click did hang it).    It seems to work if aliased trash is on desktop

  This works fine on my configuration, with no crashes at all...
  Config:  Mac IIci/5MB, 13MB virtual
  Inits:   DepthGuage 2.01, Superclock 3.9

  I have noticed some sort of interaction between Diamonds (the game)
and System 7.0.  After playing 1 or 2 games, Diamonds suddenly slows
down  a crawl in its screen updating...


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