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Re: Apple System software





On Tue, 23 May 1995, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> Yes it does.  You can buy system 7.5 on the market.  As for System 6.x, 
> a while back, I saw it in the APDA catalog.  Don't know if it's still 
> there, but it was made available.

	I believe several versions of 6.0.x are on ftp.apple.com.  
Hopefully they still are, but with Apple's obcession with code 
bloat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the latest and greatest, they might pull it off 
someday becuase 6.0.x is too old and too small. :)

	(Actually, I've run 7.1 in under 1 MB on a IIsi, but it's the way 
extensions take up memory.  IMO, the Mac memory allocation scheme is 
terrible and needs replaceing.  A true virtual memory subsystem would do 
MacOS a world of good on newer Macs, and who wants to run Apple's latest 
on the old Mac's anyway?  I'd rather take System 6 on a '040 mac over 
System 7 on an old mac... too bad Apple put in the System 6 
Dis^H^H^H^H^HEnablers in.)

	- Chad,
	who thinks Apple has lost touch with the education market, being 
that their cheapest full system is $1500 these days, even at education 
prices.

> 
> Also, System 7.0 is actually available from ftp.apple.com, so you don't even 
> need to buy it.
> 
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