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  3. From: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert)
  4. Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
  5. In-Reply-To: dmeyers@mal-s1.gatech.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 20: 57:26 GMT
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  19. Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:43:09 GMT
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  23. DM> In <1992Aug18.131234.9706@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
  24.  
  25.  
  26. >    Yes, I know that there are a number of cases where people can't get
  27. >sys 7 versions of their software for whatever reasons, but that doesn't
  28. >make system 7 a 'disadvantage'. Incompatible, and sometimes even
  29. >unacceptable but there is nothing about System 7 that is disadvantageous,
  30. >and that was the point I was trying to make. For a number of people,
  31. >System 7 just isn't currently an option for them, but given the option
  32. >of either system version I still don't see there being any disadvantage
  33. >to choosing 7 over 6.
  34.  
  35. DM> Perhaps you misunderstand.  System 7 isn't the disadvantage. 
  36. DM> The disadvantage lies in machines which won't run older OS versions.
  37. DM> For people for whom system 7 is not an option, neither are new
  38. DM> machines which require it.
  39.  
  40. That was exactly my point also. If you spent $7000+ on a lisp board, and
  41. you know it will never run under System 7, then a machine incapable of
  42. running System 6 is not an option (no matter how nice System 7 is
  43. otherwise).
  44.  
  45. Cheers, Th.
  46.  
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  49. | Thomas Weigert                 |                                 |
  50. | Machine Inference Section      |                                 |
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