Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!clout!chinet!miroc!caw From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 20:51:46 GMT References: <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun4.025024.823@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <49969@ut-emx.uucp> Lines: 28 In article <49969@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes: > >I think you don't know what you are talking about. 7.0 runs just fine on >a Mac Plus with 2 meg. (Well, I guess "lots" wrt memory is relative.) I work in the Micro/Station here at UIC (I'm an ASOCC) and they've got three Macs set up: a classic, an lc, and a IIcx. Right now, all machines have only two megs of ram. The LC is running system seven. That's __ALL__ it is running. When Apple tells you you need two megs to run 7.0, they forget to mention that that's JUST to run 7.0 and if you actually want to use an application then you'll have to get more memory (or resort to VM, which is slower than sin) (and the LC, which has an 020, doesn't have a 551 so it can't do VM anyway). The only things that run on the LC are a few small demos to show off the Mac. Anytime someone wants to see Excel or MacWrite II or PageMaker or Quark or... the Mac reps have to move over to the IIcx. System 7 looks kinda nice, though. I will admit that the overall look seems better than that of Intuition. It also seemed rather slugish, though. You click on a window's close gadget and wait up to two seconds for the window to go away (this is with the LC). This was independant of the number of windows currently open. There were some other things it seemed a little slow at as well. -=> CAW Christopher A. Wichura Multitasking. Just DO it. caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) ...the Amiga way... u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)