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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word died in strange disease!
Message-ID: <123@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 16:49:54 GMT
References: <425@tekn01.chalmers.se> <75410@felix.UUCP> <112@microsoft.UUCP> <33770@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <33770@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
     ||  I write:
     ||  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! . . . .

Ouch!, I've been truncated!! :-) :-)

     | 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).

You cut me off to soon.. what I said was... that I NEVER run Word in the
1st meg of memory, cos I can't.. I have too much other stuff in there
cloggin up the works.. :-).. Word ALWAYS runs somewhere 2 - 3 - 4 megs up
into memory with no problems.  Sorry if I didn't make this clear the first
time round.

BTW, 1.5 Excel does not fix the memory limitations.. the next release will
however.

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Stu.

PS.  Merry Xmas fellow netters.  Baraka Bashad.

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