Passage Review 101987

First. an update on Inllox. a message system for Applelalk When plotting such a curve with Excel and Cricket Graph. I networks. In a recent review. I mentioned a few problems. always end up with little line segments. For this alone. it is worth mostly for the Adminstrator Macintosh. The Administrator. having! usually equipped with a hard disk. is the repository for the What it does. Passage allows you to have eight data messages and files that arc sent between work stations. V.e~sion windows open at once (each window contains an X/Y variable 2's major enhancement over the initial version was the abllIty to pair with up to several hundred data points.). Any or all ~f these run the Administrator in the "background" thus permitting you pairs can be overlaid in a single plot window. Two data wmdows to use this Mac for other things. (Version 1 had an expensive have been requested in the following dialog box. Passage uses requirement of a dedicated Mac for use as the Administrator.) a somewhat non-standard version of an Open box. After the When I nrst tried this. I kept experiencing memory problems. desired data windows have been selected, you must click on the Often. the InBox desk accessory could not be accessed when in button Open All. This may be a bit confusing. suggesting that a Word 3. I added a couple of 1 Meg SIMMs to the Adminstrator. lot of files are about to be Opened, not just the ones appearing in which cured the memory problems. but not other anomalies. any of the eight slots above. reported on in the review. Among the new ones I have discov­ Select datil to be read In (without error ualues): ered are: a message saying "Can't Open Printer" .and the Control lei Appllcsl Panel hanging after changing background pallerns. The worst Cl Design Pulelle 1 - freq us Ie part of all is the poor performance I am now getting when running Cl Design Tutorial 2 - P us T (sHllmpls 4) Word 3. With InBox running in the background. the Mac seems Cl EHeel/Works 3­ It D freq liS Ie 4­ to "forget" I am typing at the keyboard. Keystrokes are lost and D' P us T (eHample 41 ! 5­ occasionally a letter is repeated four or five times. How about C Quudrotlc 6­ getting a message while running Excel with NO windows open C solar model 7­ that there is not enough memory to open the InBox Desk 8­ Accessory (remember. this is on a machine…