gdavis@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis) (10/14/87)
I recently had an interesting crash on my Mac II. I was working with
Acta and decided to look up a word with the WordFinder thesaurus DA.
Bang! Bus error, ID 01. I had just typed in a lot of material and expected to
lose it when I restarted the machine, the only option available. Instead,
when I clicked Restart Acta threw up a Save dialog and successfully
saved my file before the Mac rebooted.
I've never seen anything like that before. Could it be a feature of Acta,
the Mac II or System 4.1? Out of curiosity I repeated the same sequence of
events a second time, but I didn't pursue it further to see what conditions
it may occur under. It is too common for crashes on the Mac II to mess up
the PRAM, causing the Mac to forget about the hard disk and the keyboard,
rather of a pain. This was the only time I've had a crash with commercial
software, but I've had many with public domain stuff. However, I have
found it much easier to crash LightSpeed Pascal on the II than on the Plus,
where it's almost impossible to bring the System down.
I should say that I've been generally quite happy with WordFinder, and
it's worked nicely with quite a few programs, even LightSpeed Pascal,
which often doesn't deal well with DAs. I don't know that the crash was
it's fault. My only disappointment with WordFinder is it's word selection. I
bought it after seeing an ad featuring a recommendation from Bill Buckley.
I don't care for his politics, but I do like his word usage, and I expected to
find such words in the thesaurus. It does have an extensive set of
synonyms for most words I've checked, but they're rather more sober and ordinary than I had hoped. singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel) (10/15/87)
In article <251@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> gdavis@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis) writes: > >software, but I've had many with public domain stuff. However, I have >found it much easier to crash LightSpeed Pascal on the II than on the Plus, >where it's almost impossible to bring the System down. > If you're using Lightspeed Pascal version 1.0 on a Mac II, you're certain to crash on a Mac II (or any 68020 upgrade, for that matter). There is a new version available, however, and it cures this problem (and others). The new version is available from the comp.binaries.mac newsgroup and also from Genie, Compu$erve, Delphi, and the info-mac archives on Arpanet. It's also available from THINK directly upon receipt of a letter with your name, address, registration number, and $10. However, if you're using Lightspeed Pascal version 1.11A (the update that you got from one of the above sources) and it's crashing on a Mac II, then I want to hear about it... --Rich **The opinions stated herein are my own opinions and do not necessarily represent the policies or opinions of my employer (THINK Technologies, Inc). * Richard M. Siegel | {decvax, ucbvax, sun}!harvard!endor!singer * * Customer Support | singer@endor.harvard.edu * * THINK Technologies, Inc. (No snappy quote) *