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From: jdb@mordor.ARPA (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
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Date: Sat, 17-May-86 13:28:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 17 13:28:18 1986
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Reply-To: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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I too have been very frustrated with Megamax's development system (2.1b).
My problems started when I tried to use the new System, HD 20 mods, and
Finder.  I had purchased a hard disc and wanted to use the new system
software on my 512K Mac.  No luck -- I had to use System 2.0 (?)
and Finder 4.1 instead.

I have since upgraded my Mac with the 128K ROMs and 800K disc drive.
I found that I could obtain an uneasy "truce" with Megamax C if I
used it with System 2.0 and Finder 4.1; however, this eliminated many
of the features that I really wanted to use (e.g. HFS).

My impression is that Megamax makes some unjustified assumptions about
memory layout which were true for old Systems but are no longer valid.

I've been fighting hard disc problems for at least a month now, but
prior to that it was "working" after a fashion.  I'd like to continue
working on UW for the Mac, but for now I'm blissfully working on UNIX
programs instead.  It is so nice to use a real computer and a productive
development environment.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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