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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 3.2 with an SE?
Summary: Don't do it.
Message-ID: <23344@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 00:00:24 GMT
References: <46003@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <14159@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <14159@oberon.USC.EDU> schase@pollux.usc.edu (Scott Chase) writes:
>In article <46003@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
>>All right, folks, I need the straight dope.  Is it safe to run System 3.2/
>>Finder 5.3 on a Mac SE?  I'm a computing assistant here at Yale, and we need
>>to know whether we can safely give out 3.2 (because it's smaller) without
>>messing with people that have SEs.  (If we don't give out 3.2, we'll give out
>>4.1; anything after that is way too big for our floppy-based users.)
>>
>>Please only send COLD HARD FACTS, with reasons why it's safe to do so or
>>why it isn't.  If all you have to say is "I use 3.2 on my SE and it works,"
>>keep quiet.  Just because it works doesn't mean it won't bomb out under some
>>circumstance you haven't encountered yet.  I'd appreciate it if a knowledgeable
>>Apple person would respond to this, actually...
>
>Because I have a floppy based Plus at home, I use 3.2/5.3. When using an
>SE with the same system, I generally don't have problems, EXCEPT:

You're lucky.  Don't use 3.2/5.3 on a Mac SE because it lacks patches.  I'd
guarantee that you'll run into problems.

						_emt