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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
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Date: 19 Sep 90 15:23:02 GMT
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In article <8444@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>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.

There's nothing in System 7 that is designed *not* to work with older
Macs.  Assuming that your Mac has been upgraded to at least the 128k
ROMs and 2Mb of memory, you should be able to run System 7.  (Of
course, there's really no way to know until it's tried.)

>  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.

Hm, I'd hope that System 7 will support future machines!  I don't take
kindly to the idea of getting up to System 7.0.5 within a matter of
months, just to get new Macs to work...  Perhaps I don't understand
you correctly.

>  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.

Well, I'll have more faith in Apple once they decide to stop creating
only high-end machines, and come out with something small,
inexpensive, and not crippled beyond the point of usefulness.

Besides, I've seen System 7 on a Mac SE.  In my opinion, it was
ssllooww.  Made System 6 feel zippy.  Let's hope the speed has
improved since 7.0a9!

>  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.

$49 per meg?!  From where?  I'm definitely interested!

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