On 20.03.2005, at 23:35, Tim Maloney wrote:
I have a Classic II with limited resources. Are there significant advantages
to running 7 over 6, or should I just conserve resources and use 6?
The 8-MHz 68000 Macs (Plus, Classic, SE) greatly benefit from using System 6; System 7 is very slow on them and it eats up too much of their memory. The Classic II, being a 16-MHz 68030 with more RAM capacity, should be much better able to handle it, and System 7 offers quite a few nice features. You get aliases, icons look nicer, you get separate Extensions, Control Panels, Preferences, Apple Menu Items, Startup Items and (in 7.1) Fonts folders -- and there are a *lot* of improvements under the hood, and lots of new routines that make many programmings tasks easier -- and even make some programming tasks possible in the first place. This is why much software exists which requires System 7 and will not run on System 6. Of course, if you don't need any of that software, and if you don't care about aliases or a cluttered System Folder or using the Font/DA Mover, then by all means use System 6.0.8L (the only version of System 6 that will work on the Classic II). It will probably be appreciably faster and leave noticably more of your memory free.
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