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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard Performance Analysis, part 2: Apple screws up :-(
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Date: 12 Jul 88 22:13:12 GMT
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In article <5434@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>This freshly-generated stack
>CONSISTENTLY CRASHES HyperCard when I try to compact it. Compaction is
>necessary for reasonable performance with large stacks. Under UniFinder on
>a 4MB Mac ][ with no inits except Apple's PramFix V.2, System 5.0, Hyper-
>Card would consistently crash with ID=01 (bus err, I think) within about an
>hour. Disk space was NOT a problem (9MB stack, 19MB free). Under MultiFinder,
>2560 Kb partition, it would always "unexpectedly quit(1)".

A possible problem -- have you tried it with System 6.0 yet?  Perhaps
HyperCard is primed for use with 6.0.  Not an excuse for the bomb, but that
might be a reason behind it.

>[...] but even if this is
>so, HyperCard SHOULD NOT CRASH! There is NO excuse for a bomb, EVER!

Well, son, about all I can say to that is that you're going to go through
the rest of your life on the Macintosh riled up....

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