Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: MacPascal Message-ID: <445@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 18:37:23 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.445 Posted: Thu Jan 17 18:37:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:18:57 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 29 From: SAROYAN%LLL@LLL-MFE.ARPA From: Allyn SaroyanTo: info-mac@LLL.MFE Recently, Werner Uhrig forwarded a Mac Pascal review by Kim Helliwell. In that review Kim made two statements: "If you really want to go the whole nine yards and do a full Mac environment application, you will need a 512K machine, no question. " "Overall I rate the product about 8 on a scale of 10. " ... "The memory problem will be solved when I get my memory upgrade. " I wish the memory problem would go away but it will not. There is some kind of memory restriction in Mac Pascal which causes it to die during compilation when 7 percent of Lisa memory or 17 percent of 512K Mac memory is filled with source code. Apple was informed of this about a month ago. No action has been taken as far as I know. I very much like Mac Pascal and wish I could use it to create Macintosh-style programs. However, the memory problem prevents one from doing so. It's very frustrating to upgrade to 512K and find that Mac Pascal recognizes the extra memory but will not let you use it. Allyn Saroyan -------