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In article <2799@sphinx.uchicago.edu> cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Cavallino) types:
<Discussion of Excel 1.05 differences from earlier versions>
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>There's still one HUGE problem, though.  I discovered it while trying to
>bring up Excel 1.04 in a 2mb MultiFinder partition on the 4mb Mac Plus
>here at work. (Plenty of memory, right? No problem, right?) Wrongo. 
>MultiFinder puts up an alert: "Insufficient application memory" Huh??
>"About the Finder..." says I have enough free space. What's the problem??
>Well, a call to Microsoft tech. support (very helpful, BTW) reveals that
>Excel is HARD-CODED (gack) to address ONLY the LOWEST 1mb of RAM!!!  Since the
>bottom meg. of RAM was already in use, Excel refused to load! 

It was my understanding that MultiFinder allocates RAM from the top down (to
allow for room for the heaps to grow). So, to use Excel with MultiFinder,
you'd have to fill up the other 3MB of RAM before loading Excel. This 
application strangeness is related to Microsoft's development systems (you know
the ones that cause Word 3.0 not to use resources except for a huge 337K PCOD
resource, and who knows what other problems).

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>...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!cute           --John Cavallino

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