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From: rob@aeras.uucp (Rob Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Version 7.0 questions
Summary: System 7 sucks
Keywords: version 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.034517.3195@aeras.uucp>
Date: 16 Mar 91 03:45:17 GMT
Expires: 4/25/91
References: <258@valid.valid.com> <18440@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar15.032828.18935@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rob@aeras.UUCP (Rob Rogers)
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Organization: Arix Corporation, San Jose, CA.
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In article <1991Mar15.032828.18935@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>In article <18440@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
>>... virtual memory available on most machines
>
>What planet are *you* from :-)? On my planet, the majority of macs have
>68000's, for whom system 7.0 virtual memory is useless, and for whom
>System 7 will EXACERBATE, not solve, their memory woes.
[........] Stuff deleted - - -

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).

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 kind
of like the idea of a small program that does it's job and gets
out of my way). What do I do? Install it in OnCue or the so-called 
Application menu (if that's possible in 7.0)? Sounds a
hell of a lot like a DA to me. So why bother?

I don't like this one bit. I know I'm going to _have_ to upgrade
later (no way sooner) and I _hate_ that.

We now return your regularly scheduled flame to a mere pilot light.

-- 
	Rob Rogers
	Art Director, ARIX Computer Corporation
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