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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAJOR MAC IIx PROBLEMS!!!!! APPLE RESPOND!!!!!
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Date: 1 Feb 89 19:33:47 GMT
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In article <107@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> schitre@jarthur.UUCP (Sunil Chitre) writes:
>Hello. I have a major problem with the new Mac IIx. My electrical engineering
>professor just bought one on a research grant, and when I went to talk to him
>about it (I'd like one myself, I have an SE now) he showed me a number of
>programs that will not run. At all. In multifinder a system quit message
>appears. In finder, the system crashs and must be restarted.
>
>This is not in the least limited to a single program. He showed me four
>programs that did this in the few minutes I was there. He has now found
>several others, including an old Mac mainstay, MacWrite.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just HOW old is your MacWrite.  Old versions (prior to 4.6, I think) will
not run on the Mac II or IIx.  You must upgrade to 4.6 or later.  As for
the other programs, the same thing may be happening.  If your professor
is anything like our typical users, they haven't upgraded their software
in a long time and are using pre-Mac II software. (As a side note, I still
see disks coming in with Finder 1.1g on them!)

If a program runs on a II, it should run on a IIx.  If it won't run on a II,
it's not going to run on a IIx.

>Sunil
>-Faustus Majoris
>-Devious Bastard

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Greg DeMichillie   
Apple Student Rep - UC Davis  
lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu   
AppleLink: ST0178       

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