Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cmcl2!vx2!spector From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Problems with System 6.0????? Message-ID: <650023@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 88 13:15:00 GMT References: <3066@polyslo.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 39 A bunch o'prorams are now "broken" under System 6.0. Among them: most Micrsoft products & ACIUS's 4th Dimension. (*)This time it seems to be the developer's fault. Most of the programs that break seem to violate Robot's Rules of Order regarding Handles. I.e., they Manipulate the upper handle bits directly or are doing silly things like using fake handles. I was using 6.0 for a while 'til I found 4D broken.. and I have to use it, so I wait the 3-4 weeks for ACIUS to deliver a promised patch. Microsoft products die because in their _infinite_ wisdom, Micrsoft hardwired their products for 1Mb machines. A pretty hard thing to do on a 68000 which has no segment registers and a linear address space,... no? Apple seems to have gotten smart and decided not to keep kludging the system to move Microsoft programs around in memory... if MicroSoft can't get their act together and fix it in a timely fashion,... Oh, well. I'll know not to buy any more MS products. David (*) I don't mean to say that software that stops working under new system software releases is _ever_ Apple's "fault", but usually when things break its due to increased functionality in the OS that programs can't handle (e.g., HFS), this time it seems to be Apple enforcing its own rules. (software compatibility guidelines..) This is probably a warm-up for what's gonna happen when 7.0 comes out. Looks like time to read TechNote 117 again to make sure I didn't miss nuthin'! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business Arpa: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center UUCP:...!{allegra,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "What computer puts out work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you." XYZZYGLORP