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- To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@escape.com>
- cc: Tim Cutts <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk>, ZivArazi@aol.com, executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Apple System software
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- On Tue, 23 May 1995, Ray Arachelian wrote:
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- > 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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