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From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAJOR MAC IIx PROBLEMS!!!!! APPLE RESPOND!!!!!
Keywords: Mac IIx
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Date: 1 Feb 89 19:14:01 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.

Have you talked to your Apple dealer (or other vendors) to check that
you are running the *current versions* of the software in question?
Many software packages had serious problems when the Mac II came out.
99% have been fixed.

MacWrite 4.5, for example, would not run on *any* 68020-based machine.
(68010 and 68030, ditto.)  MacWrite 4.6 does, quite happily, as does
MacWrite 5.0.  MacPaint 1.5 has major brain damage on a Mac II, but
MacPaint 2.0 is flawless (with respect to compatibility, anyway).

Public domain software is a special problem.  Much of this is (or was,
before the Mac II) written with little regard to compatibility, and
tested only on whatever machine the author has on his desk.  My
Jasmine disk came loaded with PD software that crashed in spectacular
ways.  Still, new programs have risen to take over from the fallen
heroes of the past.

I have no problem at all finding commercial and PD software that runs
well on my Mac II.


Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
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