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- From: vreddy@pappus.uucp (Venkatesh Reddy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.200337.27040@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:03:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug19.200337.27040
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- In article <1992Aug19.152742.20880@gvl.unisys.com> dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
- >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?
-
- I HAVE run both 6.07 and 7.0/7.1.1 on my IIci, and the 7.0/7.1.1 was
- definitely faster... I never argued with size though... I know it's
- bigger... The speed was one of the main things that converted me...
- I was skeptical of system 7 at first, like many...
-
- >
- >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 KNOW it's more complex, but that is NOT a disadvantage... in fact,
- the "complexities" that you point out, as well as the many others
- that exist, are what makes system 7 so neat to me... my versatility is
- your complexity... :)
-
- >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
-
-
- PS: Parodn my sounding rather inflammatory before... I was having
- perhaps the worst day so far in my short, but event-filled life...
- No hard feelings... :)
-
- -- Venk Reddy --
-