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I want Apple to recompile System 7.6 for me and add support for my G4 17in PB
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timmerk
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Aug 24, 2003, 05:05 PM
 
7.6 is the best! It flew and still flys on my 20 Mhz Centris with 96 mb of ram, so imagine if I could run it on my PB 1 Ghz~

omg!
     
sniffer
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Aug 25, 2003, 05:10 AM
 
I bet OS 9 will work pretty well on your hardware as well.

Unless Apple already have cut off OS 9 support in the PB..?

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timmerk  (op)
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Aug 25, 2003, 10:24 AM
 
Yup, they have. Not even OS 9 runs :-(
     
chabig
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Aug 25, 2003, 10:39 AM
 
Just imagine how fast MS-DOS must run on a 2.8 GHz Pentium! But of course, you couldn't do much real work.

I think you'd discover the same thing with 7.6.
     
timmerk  (op)
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Aug 25, 2003, 10:46 AM
 
Actaully, I use 7.6 for Mathamatica, Matlab, Photoshop and some other programs and it works fine.
     
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Sep 2, 2003, 02:21 PM
 
system 0.97 (1.0) was the fastest with no doubt. Remember the 10 second boot times even off a disk? Good days..Good days.
     
DrBoar
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Sep 3, 2003, 07:20 AM
 
Fast but no support for USB, FW. Rudimentary network and so on.
when you save to a floppy you have to wait, even printing makes the computer stutter

7.1 only took up about 10 MB of my 80 MB HD and 1.5 MB of the 4 MB of RAM I had. But so what, I would never like to run 7.6 on a Dual 1.25 just to gain speed. It would be as pointless to have SMP on a LCII. What would the point be with multitasking when one task is to much for the 16 Mhz CPU?

While I do hope that 10.3 will be faster than 10.2 I have no wish to get back to preX days with that horrible file browsing in the finder and many other outdated designs in 9.2.2
     
   
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