Am 23.08.2005 um 0:06 Uhr schrieb Spoolman Nancy:
Are you saying 2 MB of RAM is enough for 7.6? I'd never have thought
that. I only have 7.5 on my Classic II and it has 10 MB of RAM. I run
XTension on it to turn on my lights for the bird and pets when we are
gone. :)
On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Scott Baret wrote:
As a retirement gift I got a Mac Classic from our
storage closet. I'm probably going to set it up on
Friday but I wiped the hard drive two months ago. As
such, I need to install an OS and then some programs.
I am torn between System 6 and System 7. 6 has a speed
advantage but 7 has more features. The Mac has 2MB of
Nanc, I didn't realize it at first glance, but you misread a line in
Scott's post. Read the quoted paragraph closely: "torn between System 6
and System7. (period, space, System) 6 has a speed advantage" etc. He's
not talking about 7.6, and does it for a reason. 7.6 was a very
advanced development, much closer in many respects to 8 or even 9 as to
7.5, so just as you thought, one shouldn't even think of using it in a
low-RAM environment. A 2 MB machine will only be happy with some
flavour of System 6 or, if you don't mind speed issues, 7.1 at the
utmost. The only pre-Quadra or pre-PPC machine that could handle 7.6 in
style was the IIfx. A beefed-up SE/30 could have enough memory but
would have needed IIsi or IIfx ROMs for being 32-bit clean, which was a
mixed blessing for a number of listers, and would still have been dead
slow. With a Classic II, in case it could have had enough RAM to run
7.6, you probably could have fed and watered the bird and walked the
dog before it had finished booting...
Cheers, OM
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