Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!silvlis!jimb From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple should let us e-mail System 7 Message-ID: <1991Jun6.080810.11067@silvlis.com> Date: 6 Jun 91 08:08:10 GMT References: <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu> <212@eclectic.COM> Sender: usenet@silvlis.com (USENET news maint) Organization: Silvar-Lisco Lines: 39 People are complaining that programs listed as incompatible work fine for them. Many of them work fine for me also: as long as I stay in 24bit mode. as long as they are on my Apple disk. as long as I don't use VM. It's obvious to *me* that Apple's notion of "compatible" includes all of the operational possibilities now possible with System 7.0. I've already found several programs Apple found incompatible that work fine in 24 bit mode, and don't work in 32 bit mode. I upgraded my non-Apple disk. I decided I didn't need the ones that wouldn't run in VM. I don't *yet* find a need to run in 32 bit mode. I'm doing fine with 5 Meg RAM and 10 Meg VM and have found zero disagreement with Apple's evaluation of programs. I agree with Apple saying that it must run in 32 bit mode with VM before it's called "compatible". And still I'm doing fine using many "incompatible" programs in the mode I am using them. jim -- __ __ / o / Jim Budler jimb@silvlis.com | Proud | Sys- / / /\/\ /__ Silvar-Lisco +1.408.991.6115 | MacIIsi | tem /__/ / / / /__/ 703 E. Evelyn Ave. Sunnyvale, Ca. 94086 | owner | 7