Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!thorin!phi!markham From: markham@phi.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: System 7.0 Summary: Not quite Message-ID: <9173@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 14:52:15 GMT References: <227700026@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <483@sunfs3.camex.uucp> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Lines: 45 In article <483@sunfs3.camex.uucp>, kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes: > In article <227700026@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > > >If I had only a Mac plus, what does system 7.0 do for me? > > The only new feature that a Plus won't get is the virtual memory. The > rest will be there. Realize that you still will not have Color > QuickDraw, a big screen, etc. > > Kent Borg > kent@lloyd.uucp > or > ...!husc6!lloyd!kent Well; close, but no cigar. Unless your Mac plus has 2MB of main memory, you won't even be able to run 7.0. 7.0 will include the following: Virtual Memory and 32-bit Addressing (this you will not have because you only have a 68000 cpu that is unable to support a PMMU) InterApplication Communication Architecture - IAC Outline Fonts Layout Manager New Print Architecture Database Access New Finder(symbolic lincs, modifiable Views, a more intuitive "Find File" located as a menu option (I believe), configurable apple menu,etc) I think Apple really duped a lot of people when they laid down the 2MB memory requirement. This should work on 1M machines since I am sure that > 50% of the machines out there have 1M (although I have a 2.5 MB SE). Andrew W. MarkhamComputer Science Department UNC-CH "Nobody in the world can cover my main man Michael Jordan. No, No, Nooobody." -Mars Blackmon