On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 06:50 PM, Terry Graham wrote:
> Mark wrote,
>> Terry, as an OT not for this list I'd drop that LCIII back to 7.1, or
>> if
>> you insist on using a late OS 7 7.5.3 is not a good one IMHO, 7.5.5
>> also
>> crashes a bit on my LC so I bought 7.6 and updated it to 7.6.1 using
>> the
>> free updater.
>
> Thanks Mark. I use 7.6.1 in my two active Quads and so far
> it is my favorite OS although my experience is much more
> limited than yours.
That I doubt ;).
> As for that OTopic LCIII on 7.5.3 . . it's out the door and in the hands
> of a total computer newbie so it's a don't-look-back.
> I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but even in his hands it
> seems to be stable; in fact last time I saw him he
> raved about how it never crashes on him and that his old
> girlfriend's iMac crashed more.
Well, some things don't upset it. I can't remember what I was doing that
made my 475 nose-dive into the desk but it did, a lot. I think I was
doing something silly on it though.
> I while back I thought you were saying to not go beyond 7.1
> with the 030's but I see know that you are suggesting either
> staying with 7.1 or taking a giant step to 7.6.1 to bypass the
> troublesome OS's inbetween. I can dig it!
I'd still say stick with 7.1 for the best speed vs. stability balance.
7.6.1 is thae same speed as 7.5.5 but more stable. I started out with
7.5.5 on my LCIII back when it was still a III not a 475 (I bought a
scrap logic board for �4 and VRAM for �3 - bargain city!) and it was
very sluggish. I recently bought a new hard disk for the machine and it
had 7.6.1 on it so I decided to give it a go and it is now running
services to my network 24/7.
> My Quad 605 was 7.6 but something
> (GX Graphics? - Freeway? - wish I could remember!)
> told me I needed 7.6.1- which updater I happilly had on CD.
I use 8.1 on my 840av for the HFS+ facility. I will go back to 7.6.1
when the mammoth 40GB hard disk migrates to my 7300 I'm hoping to get.
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