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- From: cartier@math.uqam.ca (Guillaume Cartier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Startup conflicts
- Message-ID: <9208261819.AA02388@mipsmath.math.uqam.ca>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:19:58 GMT
- Sender: cartier@mipsmath.math.uqam.ca
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Original-To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com (Macintosh Common Lisp)
-
- >I hoped that by this time I would have an esoteric LISP question to ask, but
- >I can't get past the starting gate...
- >
- >I was able to get MCL 2.0 Beta to run beautifully, but 2.0 Final exits
- >with a status of 7. I turned off all my inits except for my Init Manager (the
- >one from Baseline Publishing) and had the same failure. If I booted with the
- >shift key down (i.e. no inits whatsoever including the Init Manager) I got a
- >Listener window and a full menu bar, but also a warning that I had insufficient
- >memory (I guess "no inits" also means "no virtual memory"). I have a IIci
- >with 4MB of RAM, no cache card, running System 7.0 (plus the TuneUp). I got
- >my MCL 2.0 folder directly from the CD-ROM. I had the same problem regardless
- >of whether ptable was installed.
- >
- >Does anyone out there have a clue? Does anyone have the right init
- >manager that allows MCL to come up gracefully?
- >
- >Save me from having to program in C!
- >
- >Ed
-
- The answer is very simple, the init you want
- costs about 100$ and is called a 4MEG upgrade!
-
- MCL needs a mininum for itself of about 3.5MEG
- and your system7 will take a minimum of about
- 1MEG.
-
- 3.5 + 1.0 > 4.0 -> problems
-
- In fact, the only real question you have to answer
- is whether or not you should not step directly to
- 20MEG (4x4MEGS plus your original 4) and save yourself
- the disheartening experience of upgrading to 8x1MEG
- and having later to trash 4x1MEG to install a new
- upgrade to 20MEG. (I know the feeling :-( ).
-
- If you can spare the money, go for 20MEGS. MCL will
- be happy, your other softwares will be happy, you
- will be happy (except for your bank account :-) ).
-
- Guillaume.
-