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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <2845@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 21:50:42 GMT
References: <12280@accuvax.nwu.edu> <8444@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <	<2610@idunno.Princeton.EDU>> <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se> <1990Sep20.142124.7304@sics.se>
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In article <1990Sep20.142124.7304@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
>
>I've tried System 7 on a Mac II, it's hopeless slow. I can't think of anyone
>with such a great patience he could use it on a 68000-Mac.
>Sometimes I start my MacPlus with System 3.2 just to get some speed over it:
>there are still a lot of programs that works with it.
>Is Apple going to give any support for a less-than-two-meg-system to be
>used by us who can't afford an upgrade?


	Olle, what you tried was is a "alpha version" of 7.0, much
	of the speed will be significantly enhanced in later beta
	and the release version. You already have support for 1 meg
	machines, its called System 6.0.x. I am not sure what you cannot
	afford to upgrade to, with 1 meg simm prices at $45 a simm, as far
	as I am concerned, if you can afford to buy the computer, you
	can afford a ram upgrade to use 7.0. I doubt if there is any
	real speed up in using ancient system 3.2 either... current
	system software runs just fine on any Mac.. A lot of software
	though will not run under system 3.2.

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