ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) (07/24/86)
About two weeks ago, the Software Supplement Additions, volume 1, number 3, appeared on CompuServe (or so I'm told). Has anyone who ordered this package (originally called the March '86 Software Supplement Additions) actually received a copy?
ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) (07/25/86)
Yesterday, I wrote: > About two weeks ago, the Software Supplement Additions, volume 1, number > 3, appeared on CompuServe (or so I'm told). Has anyone who ordered this > package (originally called the March '86 Software Supplement Additions) > actually received a copy? Today, I spoke to the folks at Apple's mailing facility. They told me that the Software Supplement Additions were shipped on July 17th and that I could reasonably expect to receive them Real Soon Now. From all indications, this software supplement contains plenty of good stuff: A new version of Macsbug, with new documentation; a comprehensive Inside Switcher; some more chapters (all?) of IM volume 4; a sample SCSI driver that actually works (recipients of previous versions will know what I mean here :-); and other goodies.
dlc@lanl.ARPA (Dale Carstensen) (07/27/86)
I received my Supplement early last week. Within 3 working days of July 17, amazingly enough, but it came UPS. It includes two interesting new applications: Jumpstart -- massages an application to force frequently used resources to be loaded quickly at the beginning of execution, with warnings about what a disaster can happen with applications that MODIFY their own resources. TrapTimer -- A desk accessory that can find where redundant or time- consuming traps are being called. Inside Macintosh, volume IV includes 32 chapters, many of them updates to the Addison Wesley chapters. IM volume IV contents: 1. The Macintosh User Interface Guidelines 17. The Segment Loader 2. Using Assembly Language 18. The O S Event Manager 3. The Resource Manager 19. The File Manager 4. QuickDraw 20. The Device Manager 5. The Font Manager 21. The Disk Driver 6. The Window Manager 22. The Serial Driver 7. The Control Manager 23. The AppleTalk Manager 8. The Menu Manager 24. The System Error Handler 9. TextEdit 25. The O S Utilities 10. The Dialog Manager 26. The Disk Init'z'n Package 11. The Scrap Manager 27. The Finder Interface 12. Toolbox Utilities 28. The Macintosh+ Hardware 13. The Package Manager 29. The System Resource File 14. The Binary-Decimal Conversion Package 30. The List Manager Package 15. The Standard File Package 31. The SCSI Manager 16. The Memory Manager 32. The Time Manager Appendix A: Result Codes Appendix B: Routines That May Move or Purge Memory Appendix C: System Traps Appendix D: Global Variables Glossary