Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Mac-system 7.0 Message-ID: <13439@dog.ee.lbl.gov> From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Date: 22 May 91 00:45:23 GMT References: <21510@brahms.udel.edu> <17153@chopin.udel.edu> <91141.134520DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory X-Local-Date: Tue, 21 May 91 17:45:23 PDT Lines: 48 In article <91141.134520DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> Doug Bischoff writes: > In short... i don't believe sys 7.0 will work on AMAX. But to be honest: > the biggest advantages of it work on an Appletalk networked Mac, and the only > thing you'd be getting that's better is Virtual Memory (hard disk space can be > used as memory) which is SLOW AS SIN and TrueType (which'll only work if you > have an Apple printer as far as I understand it) fonts. > To me... it isn't worth the trouble. True engouh ... But there are a few features that could be worth it. Mainly, it's 7.0 ability and _BIG_ improvement if you're dealing with a lot of files. It's _way faster_ ! Not to mention much more reliable. An other thing is the possibility to have the finder run in the background (for those who haven't tried it yet: yes ! When you copy a file for example, even if the cursor is a watch, you can still go to the upper-right corner and switch to something else, the copy won't stop. But maybe you don't want that on an Amiga .... it too pathetic ... When I see the way it works on my IIfx, and when I think how it would work with the same CPU under AmigaDOS, especially when you know what's inside a IIfx for IO processing. And of course, it doesn't work when you're formatting a floppy (this very tricky operation taking over the 68030@40Mhz ! (-:). They're still quite far away from a vintage 1986 Amiga1000 with 256K of RAM where you can nearly format a floppy twice at the same time ! (-: Oh ! And one last thing, don't try 7.0 unless you have at least 2MB of memory. I'd say 4MB is a minimum (for a Mac+ emulation) to do anything serious. JNM (Amiga developper lost in MacLand) --- #include JNM: jnmoyne@lbl.gov - The postmaster allways pings twice (soon in your mailbox!)