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In article <538@apple.UUCP> huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham) writes:
>Since all MacII's in existence are PROTOTYPES (ie, not finished), 
>saying what does and doesn't run now isn't very useful information.
>The particular machine at Ohio State has much less than current
>ROMs and system software.  
>
>Applications that follow the rules (which are bashed into developer's
>heads over and over) will run on a MacII.  In particular see tech
>notes #2 and #117.
>
>Happy Programming,
>Fred

Hmm... First, let me say that I'm deeply impressed by even what we have.
Since it only arrived the day before yesterday (March 17), I made the
assumption that the ROMs & software were fairly recent, despite the quaint
enclosure :-).

We have a Beta 7.0 ROM and System 4.1b1 dated March 2, 1987.  To prevent
future embarrassment, what's current (replying by mail is fine; I'm hard
to find by phone...)?

So far, all of the programs I have written run fine (and very fast).  What
worried me is that several Apple-labeled programs, which one would naively
assume followed the Developer Guidelines [1/2 :-)], seem to have problems.

So far the majority of bombs I have seen are System Error ID=1 (Bus Error).
I would guess that these are mainly due to wild memory references, and thus
aren't the ROM/System's fault.  I'm not worried about the stuff we are
working on here, but I hope other developers move fast to fix this kind of
bug.

Happily Programming,


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