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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 21 Apr 91 00:22:05 GMT
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In article <91110.010457MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Compare that to the bloated System 7 (8 disks, 4 MB RAM required, and it's
>SLOWER than System 6??). I will GLADLY wait for something that works rather
>than something bloated and inefficient rushed out the door. ...If you can
>call two years "rushing," that is.

System 7.0 doesn't require 4 meg of RAM.  Also, the beta testing 7.0 is going
through isn't anything to sneeze at.  

Efficiency is a relative thing.  I'll be happy to have peer-to-peer file service
on my network.  Be ABLE to do something slowly is at times better than NOT being
able to do something very quickly.