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In article <12498@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
> I certainly
> wont bitch at Apple when MSWord 4 breaks under System 7.0, for example, since
> Microsoft is notoriously bad at that.  As an aside, it is my understanding
> that just about everything Microsoft has out now will break, since the
> system software will stop special-casing Microsoft software that needs to
> run in the first meg of memory.  That'll show 'em.
> 
> -Ivan

I didn't know that the system software "special cased" anything that
Microsoft produces.

Right now, I am running Oracle and then trying to run Excel 1.5.  No go:
Oracle has an INIT that grabs 400K of memory at startup time.  Excel just
puts up this little "fragmented memory" message.  So to use 1.5, I have to
remove the Oracle INIT (or figure out which keys to press to deactivate
Oracle while still allowing the other INITs to load in.  It's amazing what
pressing the Option key at startup can do).

As for Microsoft: they are improving.  I currently have a copy of Microsoft
Excel 2.2 beta 5.  It will actually run on my machine!  So what if it
requires 1024K under MultiFinder to run (maybe the release will tune this
down somewhat).  The message bar at the bottom of the screen really annoys
me, though.  Luckily, you can turn it off.  Looks to be a very nice product.

-Michael

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