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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!camex!lloyd!kent
- From: kent@lloyd.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
- Subject: Re: Macsbug: crashing my system?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.150356.24671@lloyd.Camex.COM>
- Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
- References: <1992Nov10.163433.26807@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:03:56 EST
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov10.163433.26807@ncar.ucar.edu> urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Art Urban (PROFS)) writes:
- >I hope this is the appropriate news group...
- >
- >I am running Macsbug 6.2.2. For the past several months, when the mac
- >crashes, I am not sent to Macsbug. Instead the screen goes completely grey
- >(not bitmapped grey, either; solid color), and I have to reset the mac to
- >recover. I thought that Macsbug would intercept this condition and intervene
- >allowing me to view the stack, etc.
-
- [Sorry, one of those "me too" posts.]
-
- I have also seen this but always blamed the video card. In my case
- Macsbug was there, I could type "es<cr>" or "g<cr>" and it would do
- it, I just couldn't see much. I had the option of moving to a
- different Mac, but had I not I would have played with bit depth,
- rebuilding systems, etc.
-
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- As always, things look better when some costs are left out.
- -Economist 3-28-92 p. 94
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