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>"Edward P. Costello" <ec1k+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> On 16-Mar-91 in Re: 7.0
>> [not meant as a flame...]
>> I'll join the hesitaters at least until 7.1 comes out.  I've been burned
>> once too often by new system software.  Sys 7.0's interesting, but be
>> prepared for a crowded menubar (on those few of us with small screen
>> Macs :-).
>
>Hopefully you mean 7.0.1 rather than 7.1... remember that there never was a 6.
Whatever, I'm not going to update until it's been out for some time.
I watched as the beta version flamed out on a 4MB SE and wasn't impressed.
>
>> Re: opening Control Panels like Finder files
>> I don't see how changing the interface to the control panel from what
>> it's been for, what, seven years? will be beneficial.  I found it
>> confusing.  Yes, let's take the ability to change system level
>> information and make it harder for people to do.  Right.
>
>Gee, you have a short memory.  This will be at least the fourth major version
>of the control panel since 1984.  Each of them has been significantly
>different, but I don't think there has ever been a major amount of user
>confusion.
Yeah, but each version that I remember still retained a DA level of
functionality.  I know there's been multiple versions.  My point is
that they have taken a relatively simple process and made it complex
in this ``new and improved'' version.

-ed costello