On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > [2] Mac OS 7.5.3 Posted for Free Downloading
> >
>
> It has been available since the beginning of the week. This is not the
> old 7.5.3 "update" but a brand new series of 19 disk images that are a
> full install.
>
Bad form to reply to one's own post but even worse for to talk about a
download and not indicate a location.
It is available from the usual Apple locations including:
ftp://ftp.apple.com/
However, let me lobby for far better site:
http://mirror.apple.com/
Pretty much all the software updates are there, there are mirrors of a
couple minor Mac sites and there are also mirrors of UMich and InfoMac.
For those who are not Mac centric it makes a good one-stop site. For
those who are, it also works well. Never busy. There are web and ftp
entrances, and there is a search engine.
The UMich section is especially interesting. Umich is now moribund as
there are really no new submissions at this point. The Mac has fallen so
out of favor with shareware/freeware developers that InfoMac (now hosted
at MIT) can handle everything.
What makes the Apple mirror of UMich unique, is the fact that they
tended to not drop an old program as they synced up with the actual UMich
directory. If you compare the two, they are quite a bit different. This
is especially useful for people looking for older Mac shareware/freeware
needed to run on a 68000.
--Steve
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 22:18:37 GMT