Grinding to a halt...

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From: Ruth Aylett
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 15:15

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Do Macs grind to a halt if you leave them on? Well, ours seems to. We
have a Mac II which is also a Texax MicroExplorer (Apple: It's the Texas
bit, Texas: It's the Apple bit) and therefore has 12 megabytes of
memory. We leave it running all the time.

Or we would if strange things didn't happen after a while: Aldus
Persuasion runs like treacle, or refuses to load on the grounds that it
needs system 4.1 or higher (we are on 6.0.4 as it happens), PageMaker
refuses to load altogether, the MicroExplorer 'quits unexpectedly' as
soon as it is selected. Reboot and it all goes away. At a guess, there
is memory fragmentation going on - but why? And is there any alternative
to rebooting? Anyone out there got the same problem?
                                         Ruth Aylett
                                         ruth@aiai.uucp
                                         R.Aylett@ed.ac.uk

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Subject: Grinding to a halt...
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