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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actuall
Message-ID: <3738@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 88 15:40:38 GMT
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Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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As a beta-tester for 32 bit Quickdraw, I can tell you all (in advance) that
MS Word (3.02) hangs the machine when 32 bit Quickdraw is running.  Evidently
Word tries to read some bits from (or put bits to) the display memory directly.
Under 32 bit QD, this happens in 32-bit address mode.

As a developer who ported the ORIGINAL MS Basic (the Albaquerque one, written
in PDP-10 assembler, with each 8080 instruction being a MACRO...), I can tell
you that MicroSoft's claim to fame is that they were there first... not that
thay did a better job. [how long did it take to fix the syntactic ambiguities
in the original BASIC?  Why were they there in the first place?].

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)