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From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAJOR MAC IIx PROBLEMS!!!!! APP
Message-ID: <00hRU1eOR21010a14Eo@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 6 Feb 89 22:39:52 GMT
References: <35965@think.UUCP> <46100273@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House
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In article <46100273@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
 >
 >
 >And for good reason. When I tried programming a MAC, it was devilishly
 >difficult to get any good, useable info. It all looked like it
 >was written for Pascal, and I was using Fortran. Besides, Apple
 >clearly stated "One Mac, the same, Now And Forever". They never
 >mentioned Multifinder or anything else. I wrote a perfectly 100%
 >legal Fortran program that won't run on a Mac II. This has NEVER
 >and I mean NEVER happened on any other computer in the 25 years I have
 >been programming! A 100% (and I DO mean 100%) legal Fortran program
 >should continue to run...

(Various comments about old programs still running deleted)

It could be that the compiler you used to create said program WASN'T 
producing 100% legal Macintosh code.  Basically, I've found that if you
try as much as possible to play by the rules of the games (read: treat
Inside Macintosh as a bible) the rules won't be changed from under you (or at
least _too_ badly :-) ).

Of course, your mileage may vary.
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					William Kucharski

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