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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <8444@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 18 Sep 90 22:41:48 GMT
References: <12280@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <12280@accuvax.nwu.edu> dsk@eecs.nwu.edu (Daniel S. Katz) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about compatability between the MacClassic
>and System 7.0?  Will they work together?


  Apple has made very clear that ALL Macs currently sold and ALL future Macs
will be capable of running System 7 and taking advantage of almost all of
its features.

  System 7.0a9 has some internal stuff which hints at the existence of
(possibly) support for future machines, although to be more specific I'm
sure I'd be violating nondisclosure, regardless of Apple's "Talk all you
want" stance on System 7.

  Apple, I'm sure, realizes that not everyone will upgrade, but the truth is
that they'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they said "System 7 is
only for high-end machines" because it would make all the nifty features of
System 7 much less useful.

  As far as I can tell, the only barrier to upgrading is memory, and at $49
per megabyte, that's not too much an issue.

-- Mark Wilkins