Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why switch to system 6.0? (i'd rather fight than switch...)
Message-ID: <4712@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 88 06:21:15 GMT
References: <1988Sep7.234716.1949@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <10330031@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <10330031@eecs.nwu.edu> bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>> It seems to me that there have been numerous complaints about system 6.0.
>> I realize that Apple promised 2 upgrades per year, but does anybody really
>> need or want them.  The tone from the net is that almost every program
>> crashes with 6.0, or that people are having pretty serious problems.  I AM
>> In that category of users who would like to kkep up with "the pack", but
>> sometimes I'm not sure why we're changing.  Since I have yet to hear one
>> good word about 6.0 on the net, can someone give me a good reason to change
>> from5.0 (which has worked perfectly)?.  I guess part of my point is that some
>> of us who read this net need to hear both sides of the story. 
>
>Why do we get system upgrades? For the same reason we get new hardware: to
>be able to do more. Can I honestly tell you that you have to upgrade to
>system 6.0 if you have to? No. 
> (etc.)

I upgraded to 6.0 a month ago because Illustrator '88 demands it.  Of course,
both the new system and the new Illustrator are bigger, so that Illustrator
no longer ran on my 1MB SE.  Sigh...

But, back to the point.  I've experienced no problems running the Finder,
but neither have I noticed any particular advantages.  Since I recently
added 2MB to my Mac, I thought I'd try Multifinder.  It does have 
significant advantages, like background printing and having two or more
applications open at the same time (great for copying between a drawing
program and a page layout program).  However, virtually every major
program I use (Word 3.02, XPress, etc.) either exhibited strange
behaviour (e.g., "program xxx exited unexpectedly" WITHOUT SAVING MY FILE)
or hung the machine -- usually the latter.  I've now switched back to
the Finder.

Therefore, my advice is not to upgrade unless you having a pressing need to 
do so.
-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!frank