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From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: Re: System 7 and Spectre
Message-ID: <1991May14.232752.22583@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Keywords: system 7, spectre, mac 
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
References: <9105141732.AA19207@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 23:27:52 GMT

In article <9105141732.AA19207@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>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).
>   __    David Johnson    Michigan State University
>  /  \ ___     ___        
> /   //__/|  //__         aq009@cleveland.freenet.edu
>/___//  / |_//__          djohnson@ibm.cl.msu.edu 
After my original post, I saw System 7 in a store and it
wasn't terribly slow...and I didn't see it crash.  It would be
interesting to know if Dave checked it out on a "regular"
Spectre or on a machine with his 68030 board in it...after
all, I saw it on a IIci.
--Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu