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- From: goldader@akasha.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jeff Goldader)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: System 6.0.8L (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.015658.27004@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 01:56:58 GMT
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- In article <D2150056.iacu3i@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
- >
- >As a point of reference, I installed 6.0.7 on my PB100 and it seems
- >to work fine. I've heard that others have been unable to run System 6
- >on a PB 100, but I don't know what their difficulty is.
- >
-
- The only real problems I was able to find with 6.0.7 on my 100 are:
-
- 1) the backlighting doesn't work without the Portable CDEV version 1.3,
- which you can get from ftp.apple.com. Even then, the knob doesn't
- work, you get a sliding bar in the control panel to control backlighting.
-
- 2) the Keycaps utility doesn't work properly because there's no
- entry for the 100's keyboard in the Key Layout file. You can copy
- the KCAP resource for the 100 from 7.0.1 and then it works. Still,
- a few programs don't seem to know keyboard shortcuts, but that's
- only a small percentage of programs.
-
-
- When you consider that 7.0.1 is essentially useless on a 2Mb machine
- (IMHO), and that the ~600K RAM 6.0.8 takes is fully half what 7.0.1
- takes, System 6 makes the difference between a useless and useful
- machine (again, IMHO). I wouldn't go back to 7.0.1 (or especially
- 7.1!) for... well, anything I can think of.
-
- Jeff Goldader Disclaimer: They don't know what I say,
- goldader@akasha.ifa.hawaii.edu I don't care what they think,
- "Welcome to our spaceship... mighty Hercules." and we're all happy that way.
-