On May 5, 2004, at 10:42 pm, Clark Martin wrote:
At 6:40 PM +0100 5/5/04, Mark Benson wrote:
I'll admit there is something mystically wonderful about a Plus with 4MB RAM running System 6. It's like the two were made for each other. I suppose they were in a way, but still, the same close connection between Mac and OS was lost from System 7 onwards IMHO. The only thing that even remotely approaches the 'two peas from the same pod' feeling is an iMac G4 running OS X, but it's still not quite the same...
Not even close, the Mac Plus originally shipped with OS 3.0 IIRC. OS 6 was much later. The IIsi shipped with OS 6.0.7.
Did I say anything about what it shipped with in there? Huh?
For one thing I've only ever used 6.0.8 on a Plus, and for another I wasn't referring to what it shipped with, I was referring to how neatly System 6 and the Mac Plus work together. They just feel like one and the same running together, I dunno if earlier OSs fell like that...
You said it's like the two were made for each other and I was pointing out that they weren't. The Mac Plus had been around for sometime prior, about three years.
IMHO 7.1 is better on Mac II machines as they mostly (apart from the original Mac II) have the power to run it, and also do better multitasking (which is kludged in System 6) and their ability to display higher resolution screens means 7.1 makes more sense. The only Compact Macs I'd run System 7 on are the SE/30 and the Colour Classics. The rest are not quite gutsy enough.
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