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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word died in strange disease!
Summary: Probably not low memory problem -- that's Excel
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Date: 21 Dec 88 20:32:44 GMT
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In article <112@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes:
|In article <75410@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
|     | When running MS Word, make sure that it is the first
|     | application you start so it gets all of its memory from
|     | the first megabyte. This is one of Word's most serious
|     | problems for me.
|
|I have never struck this as a problem.  With two 256 colour backdrop pics
|and more INIT's than most people have nightmares about.. there is no way I
|can run Word in the 1st meg of memory! . . . .

Actually, the 'first megabyte' restriction was, I thought, only a
problem for another Microsoft product, Excel, and it might have been
fixed in version 1.5.  I don't think Word ever suffered from this. I
believe there is even some sort of special kludge (I don't know how it
works) in Finder/Multifinder to load Excel at the bottom of free
memory; most applications are loaded close to the top (high addresses).

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