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In article <2009@emory.UUCP> riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle) writes:
>With the new Macintosh SE comes a new version of the system and finder,
>namely system 4.0 and finder 5.4.  There are also new versions for the
>imagewriter driver, laserprep and laserwriter driver.
>
>My question is: is there any danger in using the new system/finder
>on a mac plus?  I wouldn't be asking this except that the salesman
>at the store where I saw the SE insisted that one should not use
>4.0 with a mac plus because "there had been reports of it trashing
>hard disks" when not using Apple Share.

The official policy is that the new stuff is only useful for people running
Appleshare, so there is no reason to upgrade.  A newer, full release is due
out this summer for all machines.

That being said, many people HAVE upgrade, and from the comments I've seen
on Delphi, notice significant performance enhancements.  I've seen some
comments about being unable to use some programs and hard disks (some laser
spoolers and downloadable laser fonts don't work iwth the new laserprep, for
instance, and some (name forgotten, sorry) hard disks won't boot) but I've
never heard of having disks trashed.  I've got the stuff, and as soon as I
get a free day or two on my machines, I'll be upgrading.

Two provisos, however:

o It is NOT supported on the 128K mac.  Never will be.  What you have is 
	what you will always have (hint: upgrade.)

o It isn't recommended for old ROM 512K machines, because you have to strip
	the system file to make it fit on a 400K floppy. (hint: upgrade)

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