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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: <2846@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 21:59:08 GMT
References: <2610@idunno.Princeton.EDU> > <1990Sep19.203944.25371@sics.se> <1990Sep20.142124.7304@sics.se> <15804@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1990Sep21.010848.749@sics.se>
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In article <1990Sep21.010848.749@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
>
>I doubt that any System >= 7.0 will be faster than the Systems 3.2 or 6.05
>on a *68000*-machine, or do you really think there will be some magic code
>in the 7.* which could speed up my MacPlus? Btw, System 6.05 is already
>too slow for my taste... 
>
>I do the System upgrades because I want to get rid of nasty bugs like Folder
>From Hell. I would appreciate if Apple sometimes could solve these kind
>of bugs *before* putting in more features into the software.

	All of a sudden I sat here thinking, what is slow? What
	possible perception of speed are you looking at that makes
	you think one system release is slower than another? Are
	you looking at how fast a program loads? Are you looking
	at how fast a disk read/writes data? Are you looking at
	screen updates? What is the perception??

	Also I have seen nothing anywhere that concludes that the
	occasional folder problem that we see is caused by some
	bug in the system software. It is usually directory damage
	of some sort. This can happen for a number of reasons, 
	none of which are system software related.

-- 
Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
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