Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10239 comp.sys.mac.system:3840 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!beam!bskendig From: bskendig@beam.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Will the bugs in 6.0.7 be fixed (i.e. will there be a 6.0.8)? Message-ID: <7673@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 28 Mar 91 19:07:11 GMT References: Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 54 In article yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > My plan has always been to move to 6.0.8, and wait for the first > patch release of System 7.0 before the plunge. > > Please someone tell me that this rumor is totally untrue. > > - Or - > > Try to convince me that System 7.0 will have less bugs than 6.0.7, > and will not use up more system resources, and will not be > incompatible with more software, etc. etc. etc. I'll do the latter. System 7.0 is being written from the ground up. This means that it's not a collection of hacks on earlier versions of System Software to support new machines. It will not use up any more system resources than it needs. And I am SICK AND TIRED of people saying they're going to wait for some fictional 7.0.1 before they'll upgrade. Listen, folks -- System 7.0 is going through some MAJOR testing. Give Apple some credit, won't you? The first major distribution of System 7.0 was with the alpha 9 release back in the fall; since then, they've been smashing away at every bug they find. System 7.0b1 was finished except for cosmetic alterations and bug fixes; I'm now running 7.0b4, and I'm having less problems with it than I ever had with 6.0.7. If ANY release of System Software is going to ever be stable, System 7.0's the one. There are even a few old programs I have which bombed spectacularly under 6.0.7, only to run without a hitch under 7.0! This is NOT some weekend hack, peoples! This system release is being painstakingly designed and debugged. It's been in serious development for well over a year. As I've said in countless posts before which I'll be glad to forward to anyone who asks, System 7.0 is just too good to pass up while you wait for people to find bugs in it. Please, before you go criticising every little thing about System 7.0 -- and here I'm making reference to the people who made some silly fuss about the Control Panel being taken away -- TRY IT. Don't think that your judgements of what an operating system you've never seen will be like are more valid than those of a team of human interface experts who've been working on it for months on end. << Brian >> P.T.: I don't work for Apple. I don't have a single second of my life invested in this project. But it irks me to no end to see such an important advancement badmouthed so much here. | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't HAVE the work to *do* -- I don't DO the work I *have*."