Regarding Pagmaker 6.5, it crasher quite frequently on it's on. I beginning
to wonder if I should have stayed with my old friend Pagemaker 6.0. PM 6.5
crashed this morning as I was attempting to run Outlook Express.
David
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>From: Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Vintage Macs)
>Subject: Re: Most stable OS
>Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2001, 5:40 AM
>
> Very off topic, please excuse me. Maybe this tread will help some body.
> I hope. Not my words but those that may come
>
> David Robinson wrote:
>
>> The problem with that is that my crashes usually occur only when working. For
>> example, I may be using Pagemaker 6.5, and/or Photoshop 5.5, with Netscape at
>> the same time and she'll crash. Not all the time, just some times.
>
> FWIW we have found netscape doesn't play well with other apps. Would like
> to recommend IE5 but that will crash itself on a bad day, good browser thou.
> Appleworks runs hot and cold but the new update goes along way to
> fix that finally. I'd be interested to know how often Pagemaker or PS5.5
crashes
> by
> themselves. We have trouble browsing with these open sometimes.
> Quark4+ and appleshareIP (6.+) dont get along at all. The new quark might fix
> that?
> MYOB doesn't like netscape much.
>
> The firewire 450 imac insists on trying to connect a invisible server every
now
> and then,
> locking up up the startup until the servers folder is removed from the system
> folder. 9.0.4 bug
> fixed in 9.1 I think, like the one that records all your cd burning history
and
> memory leaks.
>
> Our 7300/g3/400 has some trouble finding DHCP on a cold boot and will, at
times,
> pause for 30 seconds (seconds in the bar clock stop, mouse free) about every 5
> minutes
> for that reason I think, sometimes this 2 or 3 hours into work.
>
>> Most recently, (on at least three occasions) the computer wouldn't start all
>> the way up. Just to the desktop and it locks up. Then of course, you have to
>> do a forced restart.
>>
>> Then, sometimes, it crashes with just one application running. It's really
>> screwy.
>
> We found 8.6 very stable with 128 ram, not good with 64 thou, go back to 8.1
> I'm looking for another 128 before trying OS9.1 on the 7300. every bit helps.
:)
> especially with a "older mac".
>
> A zip drive formatted on 9.0.4 and the drive itself plug into the 7300 running
> 8.1
> will work fine but the data transferred from the 8.1 onto the disk comes up
> invalid when read under 9.0.4. Would this be a HFS, HFS extended problem?
>
> There is a great depth of knowledge of all sorts on this list.
> I humbly thank all new and old members for the topics shared.
>
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