>For all of you Duo 230
>thru 280 owners, don't write off System 7.1.x just yet...it's probably more
>stable than 7.6, and certainly LOTS faster.

>The other nice thing about 7.1 is that its so customizable. Features of 7.6
>(if one wants them) can easily be manually added ; e.g. Quicktime 2.5 or 3.0,
>Open Transport 1.1.2, Open Transport PPP 1.0, SuperClock, etc.  Even
>some applications that claim 7.6.1 is required like Netscape 4.08 will install
>and run fine on a 7.1 machine if one installs the CFM Runtime Enabler 4.0
>and Object Support Lib 1.2 extensions.

My experience too. Some of the 7.5 apps (Stickies, Jigsaw) give you a
dialog box saying they may not run properly, but they do.

One word of bizarre warning, however: installing OT under 7.1 is almost
impossible to undo - if you subsequently bin it and try to reinstall
MacTCP, every restart turns the MacTCP control panel invisible and wipes
its filetype. I've never managed to track down what does this; others on
this list may have a clue. It's possibly the most disgraceful, MS-like
behaviour ever witnessed on a Mac...

Nick Lowe
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