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From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
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Subject: Re: I'm a 7.0 virgin.  Someone please break me in gently.
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Date: 9 May 91 20:05:31 GMT
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In article <D88-JWA.91May9143643@byse.nada.kth.se>, 
d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes...

>In article <53022@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> 
Virgin >>Today I just installed 7.0f2c2 on my SE with 4M RAM.  

J>   If you want to use virtual memory, you will also need to update your
J>   hard disk using the new HD SC setup.  This is worth doing systematically;

W>He's also going to have to shell out lots of $$ for a SE->SE/30
W>upgrade, Plusses, SEs, Classics and LCs can't use virtual memory,
W>since they have no MMU. Neither can the original II.

W>Remember he was a virgin, don't give him hopes that will disappoint
W>him :-)

I see the "smiley" and understand the point, but I think that a 4 meg
SE is a reasonable platform for 7.0.  System 7 has many "nice" features
that don't require a IIfx -- they are just better.  You don't have to
run virtual memory to run 7, either.  I turned it on once and went
back to using my 5 meg physical.  It's just another "nice" thing
that is there if you need it.

Not such an earth-shattering, Mac-user-schism-ing thing at all.
It costs a bit more ram to load, but it also replaced a few ram-hungry
inits.  My System/Finder partition under 7 takes 1.4 meg;  under 6.0.5
it was System 800K , Finder 288K.  That's not such a big difference.

-- Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
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