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From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Version 7.0 questions
Keywords: version 7.0
Message-ID: <18533@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 15:40:01 GMT
References: <18440@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar15.032828.18935@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar16.034517.3195@aeras.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar16.034517.3195@aeras.uucp> rob@aeras.UUCP (Rob Rogers) writes:
>My feelings exactly. I have 2 Mac II's, but I also have  2  SE's.
>My  company  is  2  to 1 for the SEs.  Does this mean I'll have 2
>different systems on my Macs? My SE's have 4 megs, but my  system
>takes  up  1.2M  alone. Now there's a minimum of 2 meg needed for
>7.0. Sounds like at least 2.5 M is going to be taken up as soon as
>I  boot  (goodbye  Illustrator). :-( The Company's Macs are all 1
>meggers.  It sounds like a ploy to get people with 68000 Macs  to
>upgrade (visions of MultiMedia).
     It's obviously not a ploy for upgrades, since Classics don't have PMMUs
either...
     Seriously, though, the memory requirements aren't really much greater than
System 6's.  Under System 6, the System (plus ten or so INITs) and video memory
took about 1100K on my machine, and I had the Finder set for another 250K so I
could drag decent-sized sets of files around.  Under System 7, the whole mess
(System, Finder, those INITs that don't duplicate System 7 features) takes
1800K.  I think that most people will be willing to pay 450K more memory to get
the System 7 features.  (And this is still the System 7 beta; I'm told that
System 7 proper will be even smaller, once the debugging code is removed.)
     
>I also HATE the idea of double-clicking to open DAs and cdevs. I
>_never_ have more than 1 Finder window open at a time (even on my
>21" monitor), and I'll be damned if I'm going to open 3 windows
>to get to a folder to open a DA that I use all the time. 
     I don't see the problem here at all.  In case you didn't see this earlier,
you can add *anything* to the Apple menu.  If you put a DA icon in the Apple
Menu Items folder, that DA works exactly like it did under System 6; you choose
it from the Apple menu and it runs.  As for cdevs, you have two choices.  You
can use the default system (choose Control Panels from the Apple menu, then
double-click on the cdev you want); this takes exactly one more click than the
old way, and involves two windows instead of one (the Control Panels folder
window and the cdev's window).  Or you can put an alias of a cdev you use a lot
in the Apple Menu Items folder, and run that cdev straight off the Apple menu 
without clicking on anything!  I'd call that an improvement...
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