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From: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacPluses and system 7.0
Summary: problem without hard disks`
Message-ID: <15286@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 19:35:27 GMT
References: <7645@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Reply-To: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
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In article <7645@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rfellman@ucsd.edu (Ronald D. Fellman) writes:
>I am in charge of setting up a computer engineering lab and am thinking
>of getting about 20 MacPluses.  However, I am a bit concerned that they
>may not be able to run System 7.0. The MacPluses will not have a local
>hard drive but will use the file system on an SE30 running appleshare.
>If I went with SEs rather than Pluses, I could only set up 12 stations
>instead of 20.  Will I be sacrificing important networking capability
>that may be available with system 7 by buying Pluses?
>(Or, can I even run system 7 on a MacPlus?)
>
>-ron fellman (rfellman@ucsd.edu)

The problem with System 7 is not the Plus, it's the lack of a hard disk.
The System file looks like it will be rather large, and will not fit on
an 800K floppy.  It might fit on a 1.4MB floppy, so the SE would be better
in that way.

The only known problem that the Plus (and the SE) will have with System 7
is that they won't run virtual memory.  However, the RAM can be upgraded 
to 4MB, which will probably be acceptable at least for a while :-).  

Therefore, the Pluses will be upgradable, in that you could buy hard disks
and they would run System 7

Hope this helps.

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