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From: bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: system 7.0
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Date: 25 Feb 91 22:46:56 GMT
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In article <18349@imag.imag.fr> gourdol@imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) writes:
>Someone was talking about System 7 and wander if he should
>upgrade to it (when available, of course, if available some day...)
>or stuck with System 6.
>I hope everybody will upgrade to System 7. As a developer it would
>be really easier to make this assumption.

Devil's advocate here:

You have a Macintosh Plus, one meg of memory, and lots of software
programs that work just fine.

You need to buy a widget program, and you have two options.  One works
with what you have now.  The other requires that you go to the trouble
of mail-ordering another meg of memory, installing it, and upgrading
to system software that's going to slow down your machine and in the
end actually give you _less_ memory for your other programs to work
with than you've got now, and then you've got to go to the trouble of
figuring out why you get these mysterious bus errors that you never
got before you upgraded.

Which software company gets your patronage?

Remember: just because it would be nice for everybody to be running
the same System, doesn't mean it'll ever really happen.

     << Brian >>

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