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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.145832.22390@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 14:58:32 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se> boortz@sics.se (Kent Boortz) writes:
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>When system 7 comes they all lose. Of cause they can use an old system but
>who want to use an old system when you know about that there is one
>with a lot of new features. If they upgrade to 2 Mb RAM (VERY, VERY
>expensive in Sweden, Apple has almost no competition) then they can
>use system 7 but not all of it and probably with slow outline fonts
>(I can't be sure about that, some people do miracles with clever programming).
>

Given that one the companies in the U.S. (Technology Works) sells SIMMs
for $47 or so using Siemens SIMMs, I'm surprised that there aren't
alternative sources for SIMMs in Sweden.  Of course, VAT taxes and such
will push the price up, but there must be SOME competition (mustn't
there?).

System 7 won't obsolete any of the current machines (from Plusses on up);
the only feature which will be unusable on 68000 machines is virtual
memory.  Of course, an SE or Plus will always be slower than a II-series
machine (or an SE30), but it remains to be seen whether System 7, in its
final release, is to sluggish on one of the slower machines.

John Heckendorn
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