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From: kaufman@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Perfect operation under Multifinder -- the sequel...
Message-ID: <2410@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 88 01:27:02 GMT
References: <6473@drutx.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu (Marc Kaufman)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: it's neat all the time, when it works

In article <6473@drutx.ATT.COM> clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:

-    As soon as the Mac heats up, 1-2 hours in air-conditioned office, 
-    half hour in overheated winter room, it's that close, something 
-    starts letting go, and I get bombs within seconds or minutes 
-    of startup, often on simple mouse movement (thus I suspect SCC 
-    over-interrupting, overfilling a queue).  The funny thing is that 
-    it still works perfectly without Multifinder, but again, other 
-    programming/hardware types will see ways this could happen.

-It's absolutely error free, running 6 or seven complicated apps.
-For an hour or two, until the Mac heats up.  When cool, it's good again.
-Rats.

-I will publish this, I guess, but with the caveat that the behaviour
-just might be caused by whatever (I have reason to believe SCC) breaks
-when hot.

Certain 8530s, notably those from Zilog, have a tendency to overheat and
go bonkers.  It takes only a very little air moving over them to fix the
problem.  The latest versions (e.g. AMD's 8530H and Zilog's 85C30) are
said to have this problem fixed.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu)