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Article #11614Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
From: Jeff White
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 04:48
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 04:48
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In article <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu> irilyth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Josh Smith) writes: > > According to a recent AppleLink mailing recently received by our Campus Rep >here at Swarthmore, "...to run System 7.0, you MUST have 2 megs AND a hard >disk...period...end of story!!! There are NO plans to support floppy based >systems!!!!" What does this mean? Will Apple stop building Macs with floppy >drives? Is this for real, anyway? WHAT'S GOING ON? With all the new features that 7.0 is supposed to include, it never seemed realistic that floppy-only use would be supported. Hell, just getting 6.0.x running a floppy based system now is difficult enough. My guess is that at least for the short term (1-??? years), both Systems 6.0.x and 7.0 will be supported, much in the same way that IBM/Microsoft supports both DOS (3.3/4.0) and OS/2. The more important thing that you really need to be concerned about is not what you need to run the System, but what you need to run your applications. I'm sure there will be new or rewritten applications that take advantage of the 7.0 features, but if you have applications that work fine for you now, you can just stick with them. I'm sure there are a couple of people our there still using the original RAM based version of MacWrite on a 128k Mac, which suits them fine for their particular usage. Jeff White jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!jeff From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0? Message-ID: <23015@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 10 Apr 90 04:48:11 GMT References: <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff White) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 24