Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!hao!oddjob!sphinx!cute From: cute@sphinx.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help! Excel 1.00 vs. 1.05? Message-ID: <2799@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:36:39 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.2799 Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:36:39 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 07:26:48 EST References: <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <1211@uhccux.UUCP> Reply-To: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Cavallino) Organization: U Chicago Computation Center Lines: 36 Keywords: Microsoft bug stupid Summary: AARRGH!!! In article <1211@uhccux.UUCP> cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) writes: >In article <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes: >> >>What are the differences between the latest version of Excel (1.05?) and >>version 1.00? I have been running 1.00 on a SE HD20 with System/Finder >> >1.05? I wasn't aware of a version since 1.04. I'm no Excel expert, but >here's what I noticed in 1.04 vs 1.00: >(1) No more copy protection/key disk scheme. >(2) You can now link files that reside in different folders. <> There's still one HUGE problem, though. I discovered it while trying to bring up Excel 1.04 in a 2mb MultiFinder partition on the 4mb Mac Plus here at work. (Plenty of memory, right? No problem, right?) Wrongo. MultiFinder puts up an alert: "Insufficient application memory" Huh?? "About the Finder..." says I have enough free space. What's the problem?? Well, a call to Microsoft tech. support (very helpful, BTW) reveals that Excel is HARD-CODED (gack) to address ONLY the LOWEST 1mb of RAM!!! Since the bottom meg. of RAM was already in use, Excel refused to load! The tech. support guy said the biggest partition possible is about 768K. He also said that the problem is so deeply embedded in the guts of the code that it won't be fixed until 3rd quarter '88!! Excel 1.5 is due in January '88, and will have color and other nice cosmetic goodies, but THIS GIGANTIC PROBLEM won't be addressed for NEARLY A YEAR!!! They could at least MENTION the problem somewhere in the manual! <> -- ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!cute --John Cavallino The train is the same, only the time is changed. Ecce homo, ergo elk.