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From: Leo.Bores@p25.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Leo Bores)
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Subject: MOS 7 - are we having fun yet?
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Date: 23 May 91 18:21:26 GMT
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Wherefore rejoice? Amid all the hulabaloo, shouting, brass bands and oratory - 
let us pause and reflect. Let us ask the question asked 130 years ago before 
the South fired on Fort Sumpter: "Do you really want to do this?" Let us not 
get carried away by slogans such as:"Studly 7"; "7 Rules!"; or images of the 
numeral 7.0 carved into a rock face. I have on my desk a large piece of granite 
serving as a paper weight. The problem is, that rock would not withstand a 
sneeze or a cough for the simple reason that it is a "movie rock" - it only 
looks like a rock, in fact it floats. Please remember that this new system is 
brought to you by one of the flakiest companies in Christendom (or anywhere 
else) that cannot decide how it should be organized and that pontificates rules 
it repeatedly breaks.

Are you a masochist? Have you run the Incompatibilty Checker yet? Notice the 
name. I got a list as long as my arm which included most of my favorite 
utilities and a large portion of my most used applications. These are listed in 
the report as "must upgrade". It may be true that many of these utilities are 
"not needed in system 7 (I only have 3 of these listed) and that if you have 
none of these, system 7 won't give you any trouble. I submit that if you don't 
use these utilities - you probably also don't need system 7. Those of us who 
do, are going to be the most affected by this new system - which by the way is 
now at 7.1? Even the newest version of Hypercard can't hack it - you "must 
upgrade" to version 2.1 - and you can't get it on any BBS service. Whatever 
happened to "guaranteed" compatibility with earlier systems?

I've called many of the companies involved - all of them complain that Apple 
was changing things up to the last minute and that any upgrade will come 
anywhere from 2 weeks to several months from now - which is probably a 
blessing. Also - some of the upgrades are pricey. Even at $10-15, you're 
talking big bucks in short order. So what to do? Well, look again at the list 
of "goodies" that you get with 7 and decide whether you really need virtual 
memory or aliases or another version of multifinder or publishing/subscribing, 
etc. I could use most of those capabilities and will eventually change - but 
not yet and not soon because if I did, it appears that I'd get nothing done. 
System 6.0.7 breaks enough as it is.

Studly 7? More like Dudly 7!

Leo Bores, M.D.

 




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