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From: chad@oscar.cs.byu.edu (Chad)
Subject: Re: System 7 and Spectre
Reply-To: chad@yvax.byu.edu
Organization: Brigham Young University
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 20:14:43 GMT
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In article <9105141732.AA19207@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson) writes:
|>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).

Well, I haven't gotten SYS7 yet but everyone in the Mac conferences 
who has used it says it is great, more stable, and (sometimes) faster.


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Chad Leigh 
Brigham Young University / on leave from DEC
chad@yvax.byu.edu /  chad@norge.enet.dec.com
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