Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!sphinx!cute From: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Cavallino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Excel deficiencies Message-ID: <2841@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 16:50:25 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.2841 Posted: Thu Dec 3 16:50:25 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 06:10:29 EST References: <870049@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <1211@uhccux.UUCP> <2799@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <3777@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Cavallino) Organization: U Chicago Computation Center Lines: 20 Keywords: Microsoft bug MultiFinder In article <3777@uwmcsd1.UUCP> hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Robert Hammen) writes: >It was my understanding that MultiFinder allocates RAM from the top down (to >allow for room for the heaps to grow). So, to use Excel with MultiFinder, >you'd have to fill up the other 3MB of RAM before loading Excel. This is not true. According to the Microsoft technoperson, Excel MUST be loaded FIRST under MultiFinder, and MUST NOT have a partition > 768K. (Sigh) l i n e s -- ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!cute --John Cavallino The train is the same, only the time is changed. Ecce homo, ergo elk.