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Re: Photoshop and Illustrator 5.5



At 01:51 PM 3/6/96, WILLIAM J. MILLER wrote:
>Well, last night, I was playing with PhotoShop 3.0.x for the Mac.  It 
>loaded fine, until it got to the point where it did memory checks.  I 
>gave E/DOS about 9 megs of ram to play with, with large syszone, and 
>large stack.  Tried many many settings.  It work, but when it started 
>looking at the "hard disk" as a scratch drive, it said the disk is bad 
>and died.  This in itself really is not important.  However, if it works 
>like Illustrator, it is.
>
>Illustrator 5.5 runs, albeit slowly.  The hard disk never stopped 
>spinning, the ligh was always flashing.  No problem here, except that its 
>slow.  Now, when I went into the paint styles dialog, and then into the 
>gradient dialog, it never repainted correctly, except, if I put a windows 
>on top, then dragged it off.  I think this could be relatively easy to 
>fix, by just sending a repaint message, in the window 'activate' event.
>
>Other than that, (of the things I have tested), everything works beautifully.
>
>Bill
>

Forgive me if I have made a false assumption, but it sounds like you gave 
EXECUTOR more memory than you had available to give.  Your symptoms indicate 
that you were running illustrator in virtual memory.  Virtual memory uses 
the hard drive as RAM.  That could be why the hard drive never quit 
transferring data and would also explain the slow operational speed.  Try 
EXECUTOR -INFO and set the -memory at or below what the return indicates 
that you have.  This, of course, might be less than required to run the 
program you wish to run.  You can generally clear some memory by not 
dedicating so much memory in other programs, like smartdrive.

John



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