[X Newbies] Crash city

[Michael Winter]

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 04:43  PM, TheMacintoshLady wrote:

> I know this, and what a shame. Nothing you can do when it runs out.

OSX doesn't run out of memory unless your hard drive is full too. How 
much RAM is in the system? Is your hard drive close to full?  As I 
mentioned in another post, the Process Viewer program will tell you how 
much memory is being used for the various tasks that are running in OS 
X.

> I think you missed something. I said I *HAVE* been using the fax and it
> does have one, it's FaxSTF which I have used without any problem on 
> every
> other system it's been offered. It's just NOT very reliable like in
> earlier systems.

 From other reports I've seen, you're correct. Its not as reliable as it 
was in OS 9.

> I have an old LCII I will be setting up for a dedicated fax system that
> will print out on demand  reliably. I was using this temporarily and I 
> am
> finding X is not living up to all the hype....

Again, this is really an application problem, not a problem with the 
operating system. In a way I'm going to assume OS X is living up to its 
hype in that your whole machine probably isn't crashing, just the 
application.

-Mike