Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!yale!robertj
From: robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LSC "Memory critical"
Message-ID: <21573@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 05:44:05 GMT
References: <7202@apple.UUCP>
Sender: root@yale.UUCP
Reply-To: robertj@yale.UUCP
Distribution: na
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT
Lines: 42

In article <7202@apple.UUCP> rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>So I just got my very own Mac II at home, huzzah!
>
>I transferred several Lightspeed C projects from my Mac Plus
>to the II, and tried to open them.  I invariably got the
>bug box with the message "Memory critical - proceed at your
>own risk". The project did not open, but the project file
>was busy, and I'd have to reboot before I could access it
>again.
>
>Since I initially had only 1 Meg of RAM, the problem seemed
>obvious. But after adding a second Meg, the results didn't
>change.
...
>So I'm up and running, and this message isn't urgent. But
>I'm curious: what went wrong? The old projects were on an

What probably happened is that you had a MultiFinder partition that was
too small for LSC to run well.  Some recent articles in this newsgroup
mentioned 750K as a good minimum size for healthy running under Multi-
Finder.  Since the partition size wouldn't change when you added more
memory, this was probably your problem.  (You change the partition in the
"Get Info" box, as I'm sure you're aware.)

>kits). The bug manifested under both Finder and MultiFinder 6.0,
>under both System 4.2 and 4.3.

System 4.3???!!!!  Yow!  When is *that* little puppy gonna be released??
And don't say you made a typo.  C'mon, fess up... :-)

>==========================================================================
>Rick Holzgrafe                  | {sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual}!apple!rmh
>Communications Software Engineer | AppleLink HOLZGRAFE1    rmh@apple.com
>Apple Computer, Inc.            | "All opinions expressed are mine, and
>20525 Mariani Ave. MS: 27-Y     | do not necessarily represent those of
>Cupertino, CA 95014             | my employer, Apple Computer Inc."


Rob Jellinghaus                | "And so, whenever you are in trouble,
jellinghaus@yale.edu.UUCP      | look to the horizon!  For running
ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET | towards you you may see...
!..!ihnp4!hsi!yale!jellinghaus |           THE TOXIC AVENGER!!!"