[Ham-Mac] OS Systems

[Chris Smolinski]

>Good afternoon,
>
>	I have two PowerBooks running on OS 7.6.1, One a PowerBook Duo
>2300c and the
>other, a PowerBook 3400c. I now see more tempting software that requires OS 8
>up, therefore I should consider an OS upgrade.
>
>	My questions are, should I upgrade the OS system, and if so, to
>which one,
>and assuming an upgrade is desirable, could one simply jump from say OS 7, to
>OS 9 without the intermediate upgrades.  Also, is there an optimum operating
>system for for each marque of Mac, which would maximise the performance of
>each model, according to its specification.

You'd probably want to try a given version on your system to verify it does
indeed work. The highest version I have run on a Quadra 700 ('040) is 7.6,
which is very stable. On later systems, I had nothing but trouble with 8.1,
8.5.1 and 8.6 both were very stable versions of 8.x (again IMHO, your
milage may vary). On a PowerCenterPro upgraded to a G3, 9.0.4 and 9.1 both
work, though I find 9.1takes a lot longer to boot.


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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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