> Personally I found 7.6x to be buggy and recommend 7.5.5 (with
> appropriate updates).
Really? I completely disagree, I would argue that 7.5.x was a terrible
release, hence the great number of fast point releases put out for it
7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 7.5.5 and not long after them 7.6. I have found
7.6 to be fast and happy and actually it is my favorite Classic Mac OS
with 8.6 a close second [9.x does not even make the running]. I prefer
7.6 over 8.6 for its slim and trim running with adequate functionality.
You can run 7.6 on a 68k Mac using only 4MB of RAM [for the OS] and it
will fly. Give it a slow PowerPC chip and it just burns. 8.6 is
probably the best of everything that came after [although 8.1 is very
good too] but it requires much more resources for the same speed. One
could always say that 7.1 uses even less resources but 7.1 lacks a lot
of the functionality that 7.6.1 has, you can still do fairly modern
work on 7.6.1, on 8.6 you can do anything you need to outside of Mac OS
X.
David
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