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  3. From: dmeyers@mal-s1.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
  5. Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
  6. Message-ID: <dmeyers.714171446@mal-s1>
  7. Date: 18 Aug 92 20:57:26 GMT
  8. References: <16et1eINNgl8@agate.berkeley.edu>     <1992Aug14.143023.16072@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>     <2A8DE726.2151@orion.oac.uci.edu>     <1992Aug17.132220.21305@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <WEIGERT.92Aug18131635@etlhit.etl.go.jp> <1992Aug18.131234.9706@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  9. Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
  10. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  11. Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst./Modeling & Analysis Lab
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  13.  
  14. In <1992Aug18.131234.9706@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
  15.  
  16.  
  17. >    Yes, I know that there are a number of cases where people can't get
  18. >sys 7 versions of their software for whatever reasons, but that doesn't
  19. >make system 7 a 'disadvantage'. Incompatible, and sometimes even
  20. >unacceptable but there is nothing about System 7 that is disadvantageous,
  21. >and that was the point I was trying to make. For a number of people,
  22. >System 7 just isn't currently an option for them, but given the option
  23. >of either system version I still don't see there being any disadvantage
  24. >to choosing 7 over 6.
  25.  
  26. Perhaps you misunderstand.  System 7 isn't the disadvantage. 
  27. The disadvantage lies in machines which won't run older OS versions.
  28. For people for whom system 7 is not an option, neither are new
  29. machines which require it.
  30.  
  31. --D
  32. -- 
  33. David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu)      ***      What .signature?
  34.