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From: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.115301.811@kth.se>
Date: 11 Apr 90 11:53:01 GMT
References: <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu>
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Reply-To: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu>, irilyth@cs.swarthmore.edu
(Josh Smith) writes:
> 
>    According to a recent AppleLink mailing recently received by our
Campus Rep
> here at Swarthmore, "...to run System 7.0, you MUST have 2 megs AND a hard
> disk...period...end of story!!! There are NO plans to support floppy based
> systems!!!!" What does this mean? Will Apple stop building Macs with floppy
> drives? Is this for real, anyway? WHAT'S GOING ON?

  Floppy drives may still be useful for transferring data between Mac's.
But how
do you think that System 7.0 is going to get squeezed into one single 800K-disk
and still do some work? In most computer systems secondary memory (ie HD's),
are more than ten times the size of the RAM. If you NEED 2 MB RAM to run the
system software, what is the purpose of having secondary media that will store
a third of that size? System 7.0 has never been announced as the poor mans
operating system.
  Those who need the power of System 7.0 will also have the money to buy a
hard disk. Especially when a hard disk is as cheap as hard disks are now. 
I could have understood if you lived in Sweden (as I do), where prices are
outrageous, but in US, I would definitely not have been satisfied with the data
closet (45MB) that is currently stuck in my SE/30.
  I mean, you still don't *have* to upgrade your system. But if you want a
fancier system, try to accept that you *may* need some fancy hardware, too.

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