Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!vd09+ From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 03:25:05 GMT References: <279.27D83542@busker.fidonet.org> <91073.100027DLP@psuvm.psu.edu>, <13539@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: "Edward P. Costello" writes: > On 16-Mar-91 in Re: 7.0 > [not meant as a flame...] > I'll join the hesitaters at least until 7.1 comes out. I've been burned > once too often by new system software. Sys 7.0's interesting, but be > prepared for a crowded menubar (on those few of us with small screen > Macs :-). Hopefully you mean 7.0.1 rather than 7.1... remember that there never was a 6.1 or a 5.1... I can agree with hesitating, but I'm not sure I agree with waiting for the second release of system 7 before upgrading.... I agree with what some other people have said: It's been in beta long enough that it should be pretty stable, probably more so than 6.0.7, anyway.... In any case, we should be able to tell whether this is true or not within the first couple of weeks after release. > Re: opening Control Panels like Finder files > I don't see how changing the interface to the control panel from what > it's been for, what, seven years? will be beneficial. I found it > confusing. Yes, let's take the ability to change system level > information and make it harder for people to do. Right. Gee, you have a short memory. This will be at least the fourth major version of the control panel since 1984. Each of them has been significantly different, but I don't think there has ever been a major amount of user confusion. -Vincent Del Vecchio vd09@andrew.cmu.edu