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- From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
- Subject: Re: Help!!!! Mac IIsi Memory Manager
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.163336.8131@speedy.aero.org>
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- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
- References: <smclane-210193111808@260-3l-mac5a.wdl.loral.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:33:36 GMT
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- In article <smclane-210193111808@260-3l-mac5a.wdl.loral.com>
- smclane@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Sterling McLane) writes:
- > My son has a Mac IIsi which aborts when an application finds it has used
- up
- > its allotted memory space and needs a little more - for instance MS Word
- > 5.0 with a longish document will blow up when saving or printing
- although
- > it was perfectly happy when the file was opened. He has been able to
- get
- > around this by giving the applications more memory through the Get Info
- > dialog, but it continues to catch him on occassion and he loses data he
- has
- > entered. I never have had this problem on our old Mac 128, or SE at home
- or
- > my IIfx at work. Is there something flaky with the IIsi ROMs? If so,
- is
- > there an INIT or something that can get around it? The machine is
- > configured with 5MB of memory, the NuBus extender/Math Coprocessor
- option,
- > System 7.0.1 with System 7 Tuner 1.1.1.
-
- I think the flakiness has to do with Microsoft. There is an "upgrade"
- (read: BUG FIX) available to version 5.0.2. It is available on
- CompuServe.
-