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From: lipa@NEON.STANFORD.EDU ("William J. Lipa")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Scrolling in System 7.0
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Date: 20 May 91 23:14:24 GMT
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I did manage to ftp System 7 from ftp.apple.com Sunday morning, so it is
possible. Thanks a lot to Mark Johnson and Apple for making it available!

I think System 7.0 is really great except for one thing. (You knew there had
to be a gripe in here somewhere.) Scrolling seems to have gotten really
slow and jumpy when in 256-color mode. It's definitely a lot slower than in
6.0.7. Any ideas why this might be? Particular applications I've seen this
in: Zterm 0.85, MPW 3.2b12, Think C 4.0.5 -- pretty much anything I've
tried. These applications now feel a bit sluggish and unresponsive. I
have a IIci with a plain vanilla 7.0 system.

I did have the TeachText init installed on my 6.0.7 system, so I doubt
the speed decrease can be due to TeachText alone (even if those
applications were using the outline version of Monaco, which I doubt).

But other than that, I'm very happy with it so far!

Bill Lipa
lipa@neon.stanford.edu