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- From: vreddy@das.harvard.edu (Venkatesh Reddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.173259.1236@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:32:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug18.173259.1236
- References: <1992Aug17.132220.21305@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>> <WEIGERT.92Aug18131635@etlhit.etl.go.jp> <1992Aug18.131234.9706@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Aug18.170255.25088@gvl.unisys.com>
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- In article <1992Aug18.170255.25088@gvl.unisys.com>, dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug18.131234.9706@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
- |> >
- |> > Yes, I know that there are a number of cases where people can't get
- |> >sys 7 versions of their software for whatever reasons, but that doesn't
- |> >make system 7 a 'disadvantage'. Incompatible, and sometimes even
- |> >unacceptable but there is nothing about System 7 that is disadvantageous,
- |> >and that was the point I was trying to make. For a number of people,
- |> >System 7 just isn't currently an option for them, but given the option
- |> >of either system version I still don't see there being any disadvantage
- |> >to choosing 7 over 6.
- |>
- |> System 7 is
- |> - bigger,
- |> - slower,
- |> - more complex.
- |>
- |> --
- |> And the President put his hand on my shoulder and said: "Dan,
- |> I _knew_ Spiro Agnew. He was a friend of mine. And Dan...
- |> You're no Spiro Agnew!"
- |> -- Vice President Dan Quayle pwd
-
- Are you a system 7 user? at all? ever played with it extensively? Except for a
- few minor memory management errors which almost never surface, system 7 is
- definitely better. Yes it's bigger, but it's also better... definitely NOT slower.
- It has helped me optimize my performance on my IIci much more than system 6 ever
- could. More complex? Sure it is... but that's because it is more versatile and
- flexible... But, unless you plan to root around in the OS assembly code, which
- I find highly improbable, then system 7 is NOT at a disadvantage to system 6,
- and in fact, I think the advatages of 7 over 6 FAR FAR outweigh the disadvantages
- (if there are any).
-
- -- Venk Reddy --
-