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From: tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
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Date: 10 Jun 90 15:32:44 GMT
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In article <27@alchemy.UUCP> thegerm@alchemy.UUCP (Joel Lingenfelter) writes:
>
>    I played with it the other day at work, and noticed that the system takes 
>up a mere 8 mb on your hard drive.  In addition, fully installed the thing 
>leaves 192k free in your primary 640k.  Not so hot eh?  Another gripe is that 
>it is not compatible with a significant amount of hardware out there for the 
>ibm world.  My guess is that system 7 will be well worth the wait, and will 
>make windows look as archaic as ms-dos.  I haven't really fooled around 
>extensively with windows yet, but it doesn't seem all that great, me being used
>to the mac interface.  It is, however, a considerable improvement over the old 
>windows 286...
>
>Joel Lingenfelter, Biola University
>"I'm just a student so the university speaks for me..."