kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (10/16/89)
I saw a piece of promotional liturature for the Portable the other night. On the back it said something about HyperCard 1.2.3. Someone once thought 1.2.3 existed, and the existance of 6.0.4 blows the "Apple thinks the Japanese are too afraid of the number `4' for it to be used in a release number." idea. So, any ideas of what problems made those two releases D.O.A.? -- Kent Borg "Then again I could be foolish kent@lloyd.uucp not to quit while I'm ahead..." or -from Evita (sung by Juan Peron) ...!husc6!lloyd!kent
american@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jeff Iverson) (10/23/89)
kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes: >I saw a piece of promotional liturature for the Portable the other >night. On the back it said something about HyperCard 1.2.3. > >Someone once thought 1.2.3 existed, and the existance of 6.0.4 >blows the "Apple thinks the Japanese are too afraid of the number `4' >for it to be used in a release number." idea. > >So, any ideas of what problems made those two releases D.O.A.? > >-- >Kent Borg "Then again I could be foolish >kent@lloyd.uucp not to quit while I'm ahead..." >or -from Evita (sung by Juan Peron) >...!husc6!lloyd!kent Considering that Microsoft jumped Excel from 1.5 to 2.2 and Word from 3.02 to 4.0, I can live with Apple's slight number diddling, chalk it up to internal test versions... At least HyperCard 1.2.5 works with System 6.0.4 which is more than you can say about any Microsoft product on a Macintosh IIci... I wonder if MS will get their act together by the time Apple releases the 33Mhz Macintosh IIcr... UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, uunet!rosevax, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!american ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!american@nosc.mil INET: american@pnet51.cts.com GEnie: APOSTASY AppleLink: ALL.AMERICAN U. S. Mail: All-American Software Development Corp. 5612 International Parkway Minneapolis MN 55428 Jeff Iverson