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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 4.0 and Finder 5.4
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 11:55:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 11:55:43 1987
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In article  rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes:
>
>I see lots of people who are using System 4.0 and Finder 5.4,
>some of whom are having problems.
>
>Pardon my obtuseness (sp), but *why*? THis system software was a
>developers-only release, and was experimental to boot (no pun intended).
>The released software (4.1, 5.5) should be freely available by now,
>and there's no reason not to use it, even though it does still have troubles.
>It's the currently supported system software.

I use 4.1/5.5 on the SE and 4.0/5.4 on a 512Ke+SCSI+2meg.  4.0 does NOT
exhibit the problem with the low-memory global 02b6.  When I tried to use
4.1/5.5 on the 512Ke, MacTerminal stopped recognizing the L and 5 keys.
I suspect that support for the ADB keyboards is the root of this problem.

I agree that people should be using 4.1/5.5 for compatibility's sake.
I use 4.0/5.4 for sanity's sake.  It really seems much stabler.

-Eric


Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson