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Gordon Laurie <gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <B0C5E8879668BEA0E@0.0.0.0>,
> ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk (Ben Lovejoy) wrote:
> 
> >Apple also advised that there is a bug in system 7.6 which effects
> >PowerBooks, and suggested I upgrade either to 7.6.1 or directly to 8.

the B1-7.6.1 update is available at http://www.apple.com and the August
1997 Macworld CD-ROM - a bit cheaper than OS8.

> >Oh, and my Internet sigs seemed to be the only thing I missed in the
> >backup, hence the absence of any.
> 
> Get 8! You should get a hefty discount on it since you've got a newish
> machine in any case (in fact, I'd have thought that it would come as
> standard with it?) 

If the discount for newish machines is anything like the discount for
those of us who bought 7.6, it's about �20.  Not a lot, really.

> not only is it the best OS since 7.1

Speaking as someone who went straight from 7.1 to 7.6: erm, no it isn't.
7.6 is so much faster and more stable especially when internetting on my
Performa 475 that 7.1 doesn't really get a look-in.

> but it's also about
> to be upgraded to HFS Plus in early january, so your need to partition
> should be killed off stone dead!

Yes, but you will have to re-format your HD to use HFS+ AFAIK.

Rowland.

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