pkh@macpkh.meediv.lanl.gov (05/22/91)
I have heard rumors that SYS 7.0 will not work properly on a CX. Does anyone know anything about this? Or is someone running 7.0 on a CX? Thanks
marosen@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Mark Rosen) (05/23/91)
I'm running sys7 on a IIcx, with no problems at all. None. In fact,
I have not had a single crash under sys7. Wow. Of course, I
reformatted my hard drive before installing, and I'm only running 5 or
6 inits that are known to be compatible with sys7. All's well.
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-------------------------------------------------------------jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) (05/23/91)
pkh@macpkh.meediv.lanl.gov writes: > I have heard rumors that SYS 7.0 will not work properly on a CX. > Does anyone know anything about this? Or is someone running 7.0 > on a CX? Thanks Well, I'm running system 7.0 on a Mac IIcx. In fact, I'm running system 7 on a cx and 4 megs of virtual memory (only 2 megs of RAM), and an incompatible MacTCP driver. In fact, just yesterday I was running NCSA Telnet, Microsoft Word 4.0, Hyercard 2.0v2 and the *Puzzle DA* all at the same time. When Hypercard was frontmost, I was in serious VM thrash mode, (don't try this at home, kids) but it did not crash. Absolutely amazing. jking btw--whose voice is that in the Puzzle DA? It really startled me the first time I heard it...
robg@Apple.COM (Rob Griffiths) (05/23/91)
In article <kcCojYu00WB20_8WUz@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) writes: >pkh@macpkh.meediv.lanl.gov writes: >> I have heard rumors that SYS 7.0 will not work properly on a CX. > >Well, I'm running system 7.0 on a Mac IIcx. In fact, I'm running >system 7 on a cx and 4 megs of virtual memory (only 2 megs of RAM), >and an incompatible MacTCP driver. > >In fact, just yesterday I was running NCSA Telnet, Microsoft Word 4.0, >Hyercard 2.0v2 and the *Puzzle DA* all at the same time. When >Hypercard was frontmost, I was in serious VM thrash mode, (don't try >this at home, kids) but it did not crash. Absolutely amazing. Wow! I'm impressed. For the record, my IIcx is now functioning quite happily...no problems. > > >btw--whose voice is that in the Puzzle DA? It really startled me the > first time I heard it... I just listened to it about 3,345 times with ResEdit, and I can truthfully say that I don't think I've met him ;-) Of course, I still have to meet about 13,453 more Apple folks. I'll let you know when I run into "Ta-Da". ;-). -rob. -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | R. Griffiths | "Those who make peaceful resolution impossible | | Apple Computer, Inc. | will make violent revolution inevitable" JFK | |----------------------| | | PP-ASEL(Glider soon) | "Of course you realize this means war!" Bugs Bunny | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) (05/24/91)
If you can read this, you can know that Sys 7.0 runs fine on a IIcx. I simply backed up the old stuff, slipped in the disk, ran the compatibility checker, ignored all the bad stuff it said, ran the installer, and it's been running fine since. No problems so far. The ballons ARE silly after a while (I don't normally load HELP files on my hard disk for any application, so why should I use Balloons?). For some reason (personal impression only), the Multifinder action seems to work "better" now than before. I used to occasionally get a crash under 6.0.5, but I haven't so far under Sys 7.0. I've got some stuff on my desktop aliased, labelled, some shown by Icon, some shown by kind (I like this one). In short, so far I like it. I don't notice any slow down, but then I don't do too much "power" stuff. I did have to shut down Word and MacTerminal so I could run a Director show but that is because I "only" have 4 meg. Richard K. Mossman (.sig is on vacation)
rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) (05/24/91)
In article <5995@pbhyb.PacBell.COM> rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) writes:
Oops, I just realized I could have turned on VM and run Word, MacTerminal, and
Director at the same time. All these news features are going to take some
getting used to.
Don't ask why I'm still using MacTerminal. Even I don't know.
Richard K. Mossman
(now, where did I put that .sig?)