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Re: Changes in Word 4.0a

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 1990 05:02
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dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) writes:

>There was recently some talk about Word 4.0a.  I'm just curious about
>what changes they made to it besides better handling of Expressionist
>and MacDraw.

It also includes some fixes for compatibility problems with the IIci --
turns out they were doing some memory management no-nos with fake handles in
the menu code, and it broke when the IIci memory management hardware came out.

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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Changes in Word 4.0a
Keywords: Word, 4.0a, upgrade
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