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From: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: System 7 and Spectre
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Date: 14 May 91 17:32:57 GMT
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ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:

> Someone just told me that System 7 for the Mac is now
> officially available (this was not an official source).  I
> can't imagine anyone already having checked out a copy on
> Spectre, but it would be great to hear from them if they did.
> In any event, it would be great to hear about compatibility
> if/when someone finds out. 

At the Windsor Atari show, Dave Small said that he had tested System 7 on
Spectre.  It works, but he called the System 7 software "a dog."  He said
it was terribly slow and crashed often.  I doubt that Spectre is to blame
for the slowness and crashing.  It may be that he was just using an
unrefined pre-release version--or maybe Apple really messed up on System 7.
I suppose one should check it out before getting it for their Spectre (or
Mac, for that matter).

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