[comp.sys.next] two unrelated questions

paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) (10/06/89)

(I posted this earlier, but I don't think it made it.  Apologies if it did.)

   direction, presumably to minimize dust collection problems.
   Has anyone determined whether this is a fix which can be applied to
   what it looks like to me, but I don't know if there are any other
   changes needed.

2) When I run atom on a Sun3 binary I get the following error message.

   memory allocation error: vm_allocate failed
   atom: virtual memory exhausted (Not enough memory)

   This is on a program compiled with f77.  Its worked with other f77
   binaries.  It fails immediately.  No thrashing involved.
   Life is too short to waste it translating old fortran programs to C.


Paul Lansky
Music Department
Princeton University

paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) (10/06/89)

(beginning of previous posting garbled.  should have read...

1) I notice that the newer NeXTs have the fan blowing the other 
   direction, presumably to minimize dust collection problems.
   Has anyone determined whether this is a fix which can be applied to
   to the original machines by simply turning the fan around?  That's
   what it looks like to me, but I don't know if there are any other
   changes needed.