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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 21:37:37 GMT
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In article <169861.27DBADCD@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>, Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:>
> 
> But the Mac world is certainly getting more complicated.  Consider:  coming back
> _down_ from System 7 to something earlier will require _much_ more thought than
> similar downgrades did before.  You'll at least have the Trash folder and the
> desktop managerles to pay attention to, as well as all those new sub-System
> folders.  So when going up to System 7, just be aware that you'd better be
> reasonably sure you want to do it, and be reasonably prepared to do some work
> if you decide to come back down to Syse

It's not really that bad.  A couple of things happen:

You have a Desktop Folder that contains all the files that used to
be sitting on the desktop.  Mildly inconvenient, but no big deal.

You pretty much need a seperate system folder for sys 6 & sys 7. 
The structure has changed too much.  Again, a small pain.

When you switch back up to sys 7, it rescans the disk so the desktop
manager is up to date.  This doesn't happen when going back to sys 6.

That's about it.  I often switch between the two and don't find it
very hard to do.  Of course, once it goes final, I see VERY little
reason to go back to sys 6 once you start using sys 7.  It's that much
better.

-- michael


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