Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spock.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!yale!spock!lloeb From: lloeb@spock.UUCP (Lawrence Loeb ) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Manx 1.06H's System file Message-ID: <400@spock.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Jun-86 09:58:18 EDT Article-I.D.: spock.400 Posted: Sun Jun 15 09:58:18 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jun-86 11:42:25 EDT Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT. Lines: 27 =============== Recently,jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos @ Concurrent Computer Corporation, Orlando, Fl) writes that: >Actually, it turns out that there was yet another reason why Manx reshipped >1.06H... the shell on it wouldn't work on a 512K Mac! For some reason, >if you tried to run any program that wasn't in your current directory (e.g., >the compiler itself), the shell would "bomb" due to a DSBadLaunch error. J. Goodnow saw the message when it was cross-posted to BIX(tm) and replied: ========== macintosh/net.mac #224, from jgoodnow, 344 chars, Sun Jun 15 09:15:57 1986 Comment to 223. ---------- Actually, the problem is in the ram-based HD20 driver. We were using an alpha version that hasn't been released yet that fixes the problem. We are looking into some way to work around the bug in the old 1.0 driver. The alpha was 1.1a, but we didn't know that the a was for alpha and assumed that was what everybody else was using. Oh well .... Another probing,insightful look into the high-power world of software development brought to you courtesy BIX(tm) --Larry Loeb uucp:..decvax!yale!spock!lloeb BIX:lloeb CIS(72466,1465) Delphi:ELEL #include _InitCookie "Life's a beach, and then you fry"