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From: gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta)
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Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS
Date: 11 Apr 1996 19:45:26 GMT
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>Hmmm. I was just informed by the president of my company (the Mac
>Guru of our department) that the problem was probably the System 7.3
>patch we installed on it over the network. Apparently, every non-PCI
>mac in our office is having instability problems. If this is the case, I
>may have to rethink, reword, and perhaps even (ugh) apologize for some
>of my complaints. I do hate the taste of steel toe boot.
Various problems and fixes to do with the System 7.5.3 update are available
on
http://rampages.onramp.net/~murry/bugs.htm
I think a common culprit is the Apple Menu Options control panel.
Use the Extensions Manager to not load it up at boot-time.
-arun gupta