ralph@lzfme.UUCP (08/29/87)
My dad has some 8 meg Mac IIs at work. When he tried to create a
very large database with the program, it would not address more than
785K of the memory. His dealer found out that Excel cannot use more
than 1 meg of memory. Is there a patch available to bypass this
limitation? Thanks.
Ralph Brandi
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==== | All Nasty Comments Soundly Deserved...jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (09/02/87)
Microsoft does all their work using an interpretive or threaded
code compiler. I thought I heard somewhere that this language
system only allows for 20-bit (1 Meg) addresses, because as
everyone knows, personal computers cannot address more than
640K of RAM.
--
Joel West (c/o UCSD)
Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083
{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
or ihnp4!crash!palomar!joel joel@palomar.cts.comralph@lzfme.UUCP (R.BRANDI) (09/11/87)
In article <3777@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, jww@sdcsvax.UUCP writes: > Microsoft does all their work using an interpretive or threaded > code compiler. I thought I heard somewhere that this language > system only allows for 20-bit (1 Meg) addresses, because as > everyone knows, personal computers cannot address more than > 640K of RAM. > -- > Joel West (c/o UCSD) > Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083 > {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu > or ihnp4!crash!palomar!joel joel@palomar.cts.com I posted the original query on this for my father. He informs me today that he just spoke with Microsoft out in Seattle. They claim that a patch does exist to allow Excel to address more than 1 meg of RAM. They also said that they would (eventually?) send it to him. If he gets it, and if there's any interest, I'll post the patch. Ralph ==== | Disclaimer: Just `cuz I work on the Death Star, ==OOO===== | that doesn't mean I speak for Darth Vader... =OOOOOOO==== | Ralph Brandi, {ihnp4,mhuxt}!homxb!mtuxo!lzfme!ralph =OOOOOOO==== | Kopykat (k) 1987, R.A.Brandi ==OOO===== | All Rights Reserved, All Jams Preserved, ==== | All Nasty Comments Soundly Deserved...