Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter
From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why switch to system 6.0? (i'd rather fight than switch...)
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Date: 11 Sep 88 14:15:51 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>                                      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.

I've been using System 6.0 on a Mac II with 2M of memory without a single
problem. I run Word, VersaTerm, SuperPaint, MacDraw, CricketGraph, and other
programs. I can only say that I must be lucky...

I agree though; I'm not sure that there are really any significant advantages
to switching from 4.2 to 6.0...

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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