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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: IIsi vs new Macs - should I wait?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.201949.18286@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:19:49 GMT
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- dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Well, your response was to a post of mine, and that is not what I
- was saying at all. The point of my post was that I didn't feel there
- were any disadvantages to using System 7.
-
-
- >Do you want to argue with "bigger"? Check your "About this Macintosh"
- >Apple menu item. Or just count your installation disks.
-
- I have no problem with bigger, in either disk space or memory space
- since the average minimum for both have been increased by apple
- originally to 2/40, then to 4/40 and now to 4/80.
-
- >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?
-
- Are you running exactly the same applications on both macs with
- exactly the same configurations? Are you accounting for the fact that
- the LC has dedicated VRAM so if you do the tests in anything other than
- 1bit mode it is lopsided. Switch both of them to b/w and then do the
- side by side comaprison using the standard system for any macintosh
- setting from the two systems. You might be surprised at the result.
-
- >Do you want to argue with "more complex"? It enforces the MultiFinder
- >paradigm.
-
- This is a GOOD thing, IMHO because switching easily between
- applications is one of the things that the Mac is known for.
-
- >Finder menus have more things in them.
-
- Um... yeah. This makes sense since the Finder can flat out do more.
-
- >Changing file names is much tricker.
-
- This is also a good thing, since under System 6 it was too easy to
- scratch a file name. All you had to do was accidentally hit the keyboard
- at the wrong time. At least now, you have to want to change the name of
- the file to change it.
-
- >It has aliases.
-
- I hope you aren't using this as a negative feature of System 7 since
- it is probably in the top 5 of most useful System improvements.
-
- >Typing into a modal dialog behaves differently if there is a selection
- >list present.
-
- Yes it does, but at least it behaves the same in all applications
- and instances now.
-
- >My daughter hates it.
-
- Ah.. Now we get to the real reason... ;->
-
- >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.
-
- I have no problem with people seeing things differently, but I would
- really like hear what there is about System 6 that makes it more
- attractive to use. You know, things like: you can have a real startup
- floppy disk with System 6. Things like this. I am by no means a fanatic
- who as found the One True Way (tm), but I am the "owner" of a Quadra 700
- and all I can have is System 7, and I haven't regretted it so far.
-
- --
- -Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
- "A clear case of curare poisoning
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- -- Durlock Holmes
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