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peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

>As an aside, 8.5 may be the greatest thing since sliced bread but my friend
>with a new Blue G3 is having a fairly bad time with his SCSI devices and
>with a (now) incompatible sound card, and I reckon that sticking with 8.1
>is by far the safest thing for me to do. It has the occasional problem-
>actually just one, with the alias link to Eudora attachments, due to the
>fact that I am using HFS; if I was using HFS+ there's another Eudora
>gotcha, apparently both due to a OS bug. Damned if you do, damned if you
>don't... But I think I prefer to watch others experiment with 8.5...

After moving to a company which is Windows-based (not quite as bad as I'd
thought, but still not enough to tempt me from the One True Path for my own
use), and losing my work 3400c, I bought a secondhand 5300c. Bit of a
come-down speedwise, but not a bad machine.

Came with 8.5 installed and I have to say I really like it. No problems so
far - indeed, crashes which used to be fatal under 8.1 are recoverable
under 8.5. Oh, and the much-talked-about complete change to the way
Internet access works is not anything like as troublesome as I feared and,
once done, it actually works a lot better.

Ben

-- 
Ben Lovejoy                    | 'To see tomorrow's PC,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk        |  look at today's Macintosh'
http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk |  -- BYTE, Oct 1995