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> YEAH!!! preech on, brother Tom!!! eheheheh... Face it people, windoze is
> bloated as hell. System 7.5.1 can run on an LC with 4 megs of RAM, VERY
> comfortably. that is a 16 mhz 020 mind you. 7.0.1 can even run on a Mac
> Plus!!! that was the third mac to ever come out. (128k, 512k, Plus)

Oh come on! I work in a Mac lab, you can't run Sys 7.5.1 on an LC 
comfortable and expect to run any apps, at least not with 4 Megs. 7.5.1 
is a hog even on our PowerMacs, all the way up to our 8500s, and they 
all have between 24 and 128Megs of RAM.
> 
> and when copland comes out, it will only run on a powermac, but that is
> NOT because of bloatedness, it is just that 68K machines are dying and
> apple doesnt want to waste their time. Copland is being written from the
> ground up specifically for the power macintosh. It is all native code, and
> it is wirtten EFFICIENTLY. that is the key...

Copeland is another sorry Win95 wanna be. Who the hell wants flowery 
window borders and other task killing features. Gershwin will be Apples 
prize OS. If it works like they say, we can only hope, then it will be 
up there with NT 4.0 or whatever it will be called.

> oh, and to correct a post that was on here earlier, SOFTWARE WILL NOT HAVE
> THE BE UPDATED TO RUN WITH COPLAND!!!! INITs and cdevs (Extensions and
> Control Panels...) will have to be updated however. and even though
> programs will not HAVE to be updated, certain programs could benifit from
> certain small changes to take advantage of the new OSs speed.

You will eventualy have to upgrade ALL your software to run PowerMac 
native so you can run Gershwin.

>But that is
> not that big of a deal, I mean, look how many times that microsoft has
> screwed you over with that same type of thing....

How so, you can still run legacy software on NT and 95. With Gershwin 
that will be impossible, it's upgrade or die.

Jeff
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The Ohio State University
S. PRGMR 3
The Advanced Computing Center of Art and Design(ACCAD)
Emerging Technology Suite