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From: grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu (Robert Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!?
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Date: 25 May 89 02:46:23 GMT
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Reply-To: grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu (Robert Graham)
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While having Mathematica work with an 18 meg notbook on my 0.9 Next, I got
a panel with the error message "I just can't go on like this" What does this
mean? Is Mathematica chewing up the memory? Mathematica crashes consistantly.
Is there any advice on how to run it (kill all demaens but the window
sever and a couple others, then run Mathematica from the console, or some
such thing). In any case, it is teaching me the save-often-ethic.

It also seems to be moving the position of the window up every time I save
a notebook and load it back in (which I do when it crashes). Now, it is
above the top of the screen, so I can't grab it and pull it back down. Any
suggestions by people in the know? (yes, well, I guess I could cut and
paste the whole thing into a new document, but I still want answers...)

Can anyone PLEASE tell me why Terminal and Shell are not the same program?
NCSA Telnet for the Mac is like a Terminal that saves lines that scroll
off the screen (or conversly like a Shell that does vt100 stuff). I can't
imagine that it would be that hard to do. Could some NeXT worker please tell
me if this is planned for the near future? Could you tell me why they
were separate in the first place? Doesn't this seem braindead?

NetManager never seems to get the NetMask right. Its fine right now, but
when I do the local configuration, it tells me that it is the same as
my IP number. I have a fear that some other user with su privs will say
save and I'll have to go back and change it again (I am not sure, but
I think this is one of the things that crashes netinfo).

For all the d**n fustrations this things presents, our Computing Services
is getting a 'developement machine' whose criteria is that it must be under
$10,000. A NeXT clearly beats the other machines (IBM, Macs, Suns) because of
all of the software, the DSP, the cheap hard disks (and backup disk -OD),
tools such as Interface Builder, etc). It still bothers me that it has only
a 25 Mhz 68030/68882 to work with for the price, but its still great, even
in 0.9.


Rob.