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From: cute@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help! Excel 1.00 vs. 1.05?
Message-ID: <2799@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:36:39 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2799
Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:36:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 07:26:48 EST
References: <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <1211@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Cavallino)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
Lines: 36
Keywords: Microsoft bug stupid
Summary: AARRGH!!!
In article <1211@uhccux.UUCP> cm450s02@uhccux.UUCP (Jeff T. Segawa) writes:
>In article <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>>
>>What are the differences between the latest version of Excel (1.05?) and
>>version 1.00? I have been running 1.00 on a SE HD20 with System/Finder
>>
>1.05? I wasn't aware of a version since 1.04. I'm no Excel expert, but
>here's what I noticed in 1.04 vs 1.00:
>(1) No more copy protection/key disk scheme.
>(2) You can now link files that reside in different folders.
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There's still one HUGE problem, though. I discovered it while trying to
bring up Excel 1.04 in a 2mb MultiFinder partition on the 4mb Mac Plus
here at work. (Plenty of memory, right? No problem, right?) Wrongo.
MultiFinder puts up an alert: "Insufficient application memory" Huh??
"About the Finder..." says I have enough free space. What's the problem??
Well, a call to Microsoft tech. support (very helpful, BTW) reveals that
Excel is HARD-CODED (gack) to address ONLY the LOWEST 1mb of RAM!!! Since the
bottom meg. of RAM was already in use, Excel refused to load! The tech. support
guy said the biggest partition possible is about 768K. He also said that the
problem is so deeply embedded in the guts of the code that it won't be fixed
until 3rd quarter '88!! Excel 1.5 is due in January '88, and will have color
and other nice cosmetic goodies, but THIS GIGANTIC PROBLEM won't be addressed
for NEARLY A YEAR!!! They could at least MENTION the problem somewhere in
the manual!
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