TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu (10/25/90)
I heard that 7.0 b1 was so closely followed by b2 that they decided to wait and send b2 instead. At the new Mac rollout they demonstrated b1 a little and had the occasion to play with it and it is NICE! The beta seems a lot faster than the alphas. It is very quick to switch from one application to another. The "find" feature seemed to work faster and was stable (it seemed to crash a lot in the alphas). It's all a bit smaller too. The Finder is a bit over 300k and the System 550k or so on the installer disk. That may mean that you can build a minimal system for a specific mac on a 800k disk! I think alphas may have had the MultiFinder code in the Finder. The b1 definitely has it in the System file. Which means you can use some other shell other than the Finder if necessary and still have multitasking. It appears to be stable, I haven't had it crash more than about once or twice and this was running off a floppy disk that I know has format problems. It complained about memory for some reason on a 5meg cx. It still has one problem which I have reported with alphas. You can't alias the special folders in the system folder and have the original folders elsewhere. Meaning that aliases in the system folder won't work as the special folders (Apple Menu Folder, Extensions, Control Panels, etc). Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, I didn't get any of this from the University.
rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) (10/26/90)
Someone at a local Mac user group had a T-shirt saying... "6.0.5.0.6.7.0b2...." on front "Dazed and Confused" with an Apple logo on back
aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) (10/27/90)
In article <100685@cc.utah.edu> TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu writes:
I heard that 7.0 b1 was so closely followed by b2 that they decided to wait
and send b2 instead.
So, when can WE get betas?
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In article <100685@cc.utah.edu> TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu writes: >I think alphas may have had the MultiFinder code in the Finder. The b1 >definitely has it in the System file. Which means you can use some other shell >other than the Finder if necessary and still have multitasking. Nope. I don't think this is even possible, but it certainly wasn't the case in any of the alphas. An "exittoshell" fkey would still work on the finder. --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis