Bug in Mathematica 1.2 Mac Front End

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From: Robert I. Campbell
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1989 00:05

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A new and interesting bug has appeared in the Mathematica front end for
the Macintosh. This bug exists in Mathematica 1.2 (and because of its
nature could not have existed in earlier versions.)
	Mathematica 1.2 allows you to do routine editing work in
	a notebook while the kernel is doing computations in the
	background. This is in general a good thing (although the
	question of how to let the user know that the computation
	is still underway was poorly handled - the watch cursor is
	not used at all.) Some things you can do will cause the
	program to crash. In particular, if you execute the "Quit"
	command from the menu while the local kernel is starting 
	you will consistently get an ID=10 fatal crash.

					- Robert Campbell -
					Math Dept, UC Berkeley
					campbell@math.berkeley.edu

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From: campbell@brahms.berkeley.edu (Robert I. Campbell)
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Subject: Bug in Mathematica 1.2 Mac Front End
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