dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (02/08/89)
In article <1053@wasatch.UUCP> t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) writes: >Now, if Apple will just leap frog SuperCard with version 2.0 (perhaps by >building it into the operating system or into the Roms or some such wild thing) >we'll be getting into some real serious objective programming! I have heard people talk about putting HyperCard in ROM. Everyone talks about such a thing, but as a member of the HyperCard team, I would like to lay this rumor to rest. THERE HAS NEVER EVER BEEN ANY PLANS AT APPLE-OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL-TO PUT HYPERCARD IN ROM. Not to say that I wouldn't like it there, because it would be fast and all that, but as an application I think there is very little possibility that future Mac Pluses are ever going to have it in ROM. There is a ton of system code that has priority for the comparitively few bytes of ROM space available. Some of the code found in HyperCard may someday make it into ROM to be used by lots of people. Candidates have been the bitmap compression code, a dramatically changed HyperTalk language (current HyperTalk is inseparably wed to HyperCard), and HyperCard's object manager. Been even these pieces of code are still a LONG way from being in ROM. Don't be discouraged: there are a lot of other great and interesting object-oriented projects going on inside of Apple. However, we are not allowed to discussed unannounced products... Dan Allen ** dan@apple.COM (Unix mail) Software Explorer ** ALLEN.DAN (AppleLink) HyperCard Team ** 20525 Mariani Ave. MS 22AE Apple Computer ** Cupertino, CA 95014 *********************************************************** ** Sam: "You know what they say, 'You can catch more ** ** flys with honey than with vinegar.'" ** ** Woody: "I don't mean to butt in, but you can catch ** ** the most with dead squirrels." ** ***********************************************************