dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) (04/26/91)
The consensus here appears to be that we can get System 7.0 for free, but the documentation will cost $99. This brings up two points: 1. What is in the documentation? Is it Apple's usual "This is a mouse" style documentation, or is there something in it that I might possibly want? 2. If someone here on the net would write up user-level documentation spelling out the differences between Systems 6 and 7 (so no one felt they had to buy the $99 package), this would make a very popular posting. Probably it would only be about a dozen pages long. Any volunteers? You beta testers could write it now and have it ready to go when System 7.0 is released...I'd like to do it myself, but I'm not a beta tester (I'll volunteer to help edit it, though). -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com) I don't speak for my employer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who | | were poorer, had only a black-and-white set. They bought a piece of | | cellophane, red on top, yellow in the middle, and blue on the bottom, | | and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a | | color TV, too. | | Now there's Windows 3.0. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) (05/04/91)
dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: |The consensus here appears to be that we can get System 7.0 for free, |but the documentation will cost $99. This brings up two points: | |2. If someone here on the net would write up user-level documentation |spelling out the differences between Systems 6 and 7 (so no one felt |they had to buy the $99 package), this would make a very popular |posting. Probably it would only be about a dozen pages long. Any |volunteers? You beta testers could write it now and have it ready to |go when System 7.0 is released...I'd like to do it myself, but I'm not |a beta tester (I'll volunteer to help edit it, though). The rumor is that there are several Hypercard stacks that do just this, and also provide compatibility information with your current apps, inits, etc. They are supposedly shipping with System 7.0. Now wouldn't that be reasonable and exactly what you'd expect from Apple? bill coderre part of apple's evil plan