I like system 6 much more than the later ones because I think it holds
truer to the theory of simplicity and ease-of-use. Try sticking a MacOS
8 system folder on a RAMdisk and boot off that! Will never work. System
6 you could do that on, I've tried. Another feature of System 6 was a
macro recorder which has been replaced by the more difficult
Applescript.
>I don't know of any other Macs with that feature either, and I'll bet
that
>there were none. It was a somewhat Spartan version (not as unpleasant
as
>a boot floppy, much less pleasant than a fancy hard-drive
installation).
>Now that Systems 7 and 8 have taken over, it probably would seem pretty
>barren. It sure is fast though! But none of your Finder preferences
get
>saved. (Where would they go?)
They could go to PRAM, but I guess they didn't. What's the tag?
>BTW, if you "Get Info" on the virtual hard drive, you'll see an amusing
>tag in the "Location" field.
>
>-- Derek
>
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