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From: howie@ssc-vax.UUCP (The Humbug Wizard @ The Emerald City)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Shrink-wrapped system 7.0 personal upgrade preview
Summary: a shrink-wrap 7.0 user ...
Message-ID: <4007@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 22:37:59 GMT
References: <260253.2833D427@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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In article <260253.2833D427@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>, Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> 
> The dealer opened his doors at 10 am Monday, and I was first in.  It wasn't 
> in the store proper, but was in their warehouse.  I was first on the list
> for when it came in at 5 pm; at 5 pm, I was the first to get it.  
> 
> Now, if I could only convince myself to take off the shrink wrap.
> 

I don't know if I was the first in the Seattle area to get my 7.0, but I'll bet
I was darned early.  It arrived here Thurs. evening, and I got mine Friday
afternoon.  I _have_ taken mine out of the shrink wrap and installed it.

Word of caution: RUN THE COMPATIBILITY CHECKER!

Most of what I found that 7.0 doesn't like were DA's, Inits and CDEVs, though
in honesty most of them work just fine.  The install went quite smoothly, and
my system is up and running quite contendedly as far as I know.  I've
contacted some vendors re upgrades and half of them turn out to be 
unnecessary.  Turns out, the Compatibility Checker is paranoid and if it
doesn't know anything about a program or tool, it assumes the worst and
tells you to contact the vendor.  Some programs turn out to be ok re 7.0 
and the only incompatibility involves 24-bit vs 32-bit mode.  I have a Plus
and thus 24-bit mode is all I can support, so in general I seem to ok.

On the whole, so far I like 7.0

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