On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:54 AM, the pickle wrote:
>> Find a faster drive and ditch System 7.0 in favor of 7.1 or 7.5.x.
>
> That will only serve to make it even slower.
Would 7.1 really slow it down that much?
> No, *you* might be much happier with 7.5.x, but the other 300 people on
> this list who have tried it have quickly gotten frustrated by the
> following
> facts:
>
> 1) you can't get 7.5.x on floppies or as floppy disk images anywhere
> 2) as a result of (1), it takes 40MB hard disk space merely to
> *install* the OS
> 3) the OS takes nearly 40MB of space *once it is installed* in addition
> to
> the space required for (2)
> 4) it takes about three and a half minutes to boot on a 68000, whereas
> System 6 takes about 10 seconds
> 5) it takes about 3MB RAM, leaving only 1MB or less available for
> programs,
> whereas System 6 takes less than a meg. On Macs with a 4MB RAM limit,
> this
> matters. A lot.
I gaata saay, de boy's got a point derr yaknow (that was supposed to be
Irish if no-one guessed).
I don't use 7.5.5 at all, anywhere now. It's either 7.1 for 030 or
earlier or 7.6.1 or 8.1 for 040s (depending on speed and RAM). Don't
have a go at me again about it, it's what I like.
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