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From: mjv@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: System 7 and Spectre
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Date: 16 May 91 17:36:54 GMT
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In article <9105141732.AA19207@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> 
aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson) 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.

 Don't forget that Dave was probably using a developer's version which
still has lots of debugging code in it which makes it much slower than
the release version (oy, you should have seen early versions of HC2,
boy were slow!)
 From experience, it runs as fast as 6.07 and doesn't crash as much.
It certainly has a much nicer interface. How fast it runs on a Plus/Classic
I just don't know. Anyway, I'm sure that Mr. Small will get it running
on Spectre sooner or later.
 On the subject of getting virtual memory to work under system 7, I think
some of the '030 boards for the SE and Plus will give the machine virtual
capabilities under system 7 and since they are using the same roms(or 
similar as in the SE's case) that might bode well for '030 equipped ST's.
 
 Oh, I got my Spectre 3.0 upgrade several months ago.

Marshall

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