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From: egv@aicchi.UUCP (Vann)
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Subject: CRUNCH (Paladin Software)
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:17:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 09:17:16 1985
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We just received a shipment of what is billed as a "power" users spreadsheet
for the Macintosh entitled CRUNCH.  It looks a great deal like 1-2-3 with a
number of intelligent enhancements.

	1 - Memory management is sophisticated ala the SMART spreadsheet.
	    (i.e. unused cells are not allocated)

	2 - Built-in spreadsheet auditing

	3 - Graphics are available from the same menu (and disk) as CRUNCH.

But...

While playing with the REPLICATE function a rather nasty "feature" was
discovered.  If you should exceed memory by say attempting to replicate
a formula or value the length of an entire column (9K plus cells) you
run out of memory at approximately 5600+ cells.  The application dutifully
notifies you of this fact.  If you then erase the cells in that column and
now try to enter data anywhere else on the spreadsheet it will not allow
such a move.

The reason is that the application is still certain that you are out of memory.
Some flag has not been reset!  Thus you are suddenly unable to do anything
else and the supposedly unused cells still be considered in the memory manage-
ment allocation schema.

Other than this the documentation and appearance are clean.  I trust that
the bug will be cleaned up in the next release.  Rumor has it that Paladin 
was bought out by Lotus.  Or am I confusing them with Palantir, or simply
mistaken altogether?

-- 
				Eric Geoffrey Vann
				Analysts International (Chicago Branch)
				(312) 882-4673
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