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From: markham@phi.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0
Summary: Not quite
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Date: 17 Aug 89 14:52:15 GMT
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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. Markham 			
Computer Science Department			UNC-CH
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