gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (07/09/90)
I keep hearing people say
"Well, the mac will beat the pants of MS-Windows 3.0 when system
7.0 gets here. Gee it sure is too bad they've had to scrap
announced idea XYZ to get the software out in time."
The list of XYZ's include: revamped printing, hot links, and several
others. Maybe I missed it earlier, but could someone post a list of
features *announced* for system 7.0, and *announced/retracted* for
system 7.0? I'm starting to wonder if system 7.0 will have any new
features at all.
Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (07/10/90)
In <70500011@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu says "The list of [features omitted from System 7.0 to get it out on time] include: ... hot links, ..." No, it is certainly not omitted. In fact, System 7.0 includes more than publish/subscribe (the Apple form of "hot links"), it has a highly elaborate, high-level interprocess communication mechanism in the form of AppleEvents. And there is a low-level mechanism as well. At the Australian Developer's Conference last week, it was made quite clear to us that publish/subscribe is the single most important feature of System 7.0 as far as developers are concerned, and that users should come to take publish/subscribe support as much for granted as copy-and-paste is today. DDE, eat your heart out... Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 29" S, 175^ 19' 16" E, GMT+12:00