David wrote:
>I made a post the other day about crashes using OS 8.1 vs. no crashes using
>7.6.1 on a PowerComputing Powerbase 200.
>
>A couple of folks advised me to install 8.6
>I've since installed 7.6.1 and have had zero crashes in four days vs. 7 or
>8 a day with 8.1.
>
>Question: Is 8.1 analogous to 7.5.3 in that it took Apple until 7.6.1 to
>work out the System 7 bugs and perhaps until 8.6 to work out the System 8
>bugs?
OS 8.1 was more like OS 7.1.
7.5.3 was, in fact, a pretty stable OS
OS8 was the first of the PPC 'native' system efforts, and ended the reign
of the 030 Macs
I find OS8.6 to be as stable an OS as I've ever run (from OS 3.2 up) and
has neato noises and desktop pictures to boot...8>)
My advice is to spring for OS 8.5/6 if you're using a pre-G3~post-040 mac.
Cheers...Michael
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