torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (05/15/91)
I gave in and paid $15 to the Stanford Mac User Group and picked up my user group version of System 7 today. Comes on 9 disks - doesn't include the Hypercard V2.1 which comes with the Personal Upgrade Kit. It took about 10 minutes to run through the installation process, (with nice animation of the stack of disks), and then it was on to test out this "most significant System release since the original Mac". My conclusion: It's great! The keyboard selection of icons etc is wonderful... Balloon help is actually much better than I thought it would be [it's not too slow at all on my ci :-))]. It's a lot faster than what I'd been led to believe. It takes a while to load in the colour icons the first time a window is opened, but try doing Clean Ups by name etc... the icons just zip instantaneously into place... and the automatic placement so that names don't overlap is ingenious. I tried a little Publish and Subscribe with Excel 3.0 and the sample Publisher/Subscriber code. Works fine as well [and the update is practically instantaneous when you save]. Just for kicks, I turned on 32-bit addressing, and set aside 50MB of Virtual Mem on my hard disk... Applications like Excel 3.0, Mathematica worked fine until I tried a PD program which keeled over the system. Summary: System 7 is really the bee's knees in my opinion. Congratulations Apple! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Fame, fame, fame... What's it good for? Ab-so-lute-ly nothing