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From: vito@trwspf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 4.0 on a Mac Plus
Message-ID: <215@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 09:28:03 EST
Article-I.D.: trwspf.215
Posted: Fri Mar 20 09:28:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 17:23:03 EST
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Reply-To: vito@trwspf.UUCP (Herb Barad)
Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: enough... it's ok


I heard a presentation of 3 Apple people yesterday: Kawasaki, Kastener,
and I forget the other person's name.  It IS ok to use 4.0/5.4 on
a Mac+ and even a 512 Mac.  The are 2 reasons why Apple is
discouraging it:

1. System 4.1 will be out soon, so people will have to upgrade very
soon anyway.  Why upgrade twice?  Also, people with only floppies
would have to upgrade ALL their floppies twice.  So why bother.

2. 4.0/5.4 only has stuff needed for a Mac SE and AppleShare.  If
you don't have either of these, then you will not benifit much.  I
don't say "at all", I just say not much.

I hope this clears everything up.  To summarize, it's OK, you will just
have to upgrade the system again in a couple of months.  You choose.

-- 
Herb Barad - TRW Data Systems Lab
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