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- From: dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek)
- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.152742.20880@gvl.unisys.com>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:27:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.173259.1236@das.harvard.edu> vreddy@das.harvard.edu (Venkatesh Reddy) writes:
- >
- >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).
-
- Hey, calm down!
-
- Yes, I use System 7 every day. I have since it came out. My posting
- was in response to someone who thought that System 7 is Better In
- Every Way. I simply pointed out that:
-
- |> System 7 is
- |> - bigger,
- |> - slower,
- |> - more complex.
-
- Do you want to argue with "bigger"? Check your "About this Macintosh"
- Apple menu item. Or just count your installation disks.
-
- Do you want to argue with "slower"? I have both a 16MHz LC running
- System 6.0.8 with Finder, and a 20MHz IIsi running System 7.0/TuneUp
- 7.1.1. The LC is clearly the faster of the two. Do you do such a
- side-by-side comparison every day?
-
- Do you want to argue with "more complex"? It enforces the MultiFinder
- paradigm. Finder menus have more things in them. Changing file names
- is much tricker. It has aliases. Typing into a modal dialog behaves
- differently if there is a selection list present. My daughter hates
- it.
-
- I refuse to get into a religious war over which is better (if you read
- carefully you will have noticed that I did not state an opinion on
- the matter), but I do get irritated by fanatics who have found the One
- True Way and who get upset whenever anyone sees things differently.
-
- --
- 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
-