🚀 go-pugleaf

Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
> Alan Frame <alan.frame@acm.org> wrote:
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> > [1] yes, still the old Q660AV - *finally* upgraded from 7.6.1
> > tonight.[3]
> 
> What's System 8 like on it?  (thinks: I have a Performa 475 with a 14
> inch monitor, and I was just wondering if there's any great benefit of 8
> over 7.6.1)

Well I mainly went for the upgrade to get the new(ish) Remote Access,
Location Manager 2 and some AppleScripting capabilites - the rest is
just eye candy - I don't do much serious stuff on that(this) machine.

'cos my Q660AV has "only"[1] got a half gig drive, I've not bothered
with HFS+, but I'd recommend it for all '040 or later machines with more
than, say, 20 megs of RAM.[2]

Oh, I threw out my 1988 vintage "Programmers Key" extension when I
installed Sys 8.1 - I thought that would be chancing it *too* much.

rgds, Alan
[1] I'm sure I paid an extra 300 quid when I bought it to get that
rather than the standard 160Mb disk...
[2] Despite that, I have been installing 7.6.1 on users work machines in
the office recently 'cos I can't be bothered with the full hassle of 8 -
and that's only to get a decent TC/PIP OT so I can install a real mail
system.
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