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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski)
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Subject: Re: What System 7 Does For You: A summary.
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Date: 10 May 91 02:48:23 GMT
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kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski) writes:
>I guess I'm somewhat of a cynic and kind of two-faced; I love the new features
>any new release brings, and I've been looking forward to 7.0 for quite some
>time; however I can honestly say that I won't be putting up 7.0 for at least
>a month or two after its release -- let other people find all the hidden bugs.
>Even if you've had a long beta, customers are great at finding bugs you've
>never even thought of...
>-- 

Cynic?  That's an understatement if I've ever heard one.  First, let me set you
straight on the compatibility issue.  I've been running 7.0f3 for a month now,
and I've only found one program that flat out crashes in 24-bit mode.
(SimCity 1.2c.  Hint, hint, MAXIS.)
I have several hundred megs of software, and use my mac heavily.
(>6 hours a day)  I have found one or two other small glitches with software,
for example, Freehand2.0 doesn't like TrueType fonts.  (use the postscript ones)
BUT, get this, I have found three (3) programs that I haven't been able to run
in over two years because they crashed under 6.0.x, and now they work FINE.
Yes, thats what I said.  System7 seems to actually be MORE compatible with old
software than 6.0.x.

In summary: relax.  7.0 is exceptionally well done.  It is the most bug-free
release of system-software that apple has produced in years, as far as I can
tell.
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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |   you must first understand recursion.
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