Re: MacIvories and Mac System 7.0?

[miller@SOL.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller)]

    Date: Thu, 30 May 91 15:50 EDT
    From: pvs@jazz.al.alcoa.com (Peter Van Sickel)

    Back off bashing on Symbolics regarding Mac System 7.0.

I have to heartily agree with these sentiments. You're wait for VM is
Apple's fault, not Symbolics. And how many revisions of system 7 were there
in the period after March? 7? 8? I don't see how anyone can have a reaonable
shot to certify software would be complient. 

Look at Apple's OWN Software Arm: Claris --- their system 7 compatible
software isn't due out until late summer!!! (upgrades to MacWrite II, for
instance). And Apple isn't selling MPW 3.2 (system 7 compatible development
tools) through APDA until Summer either. A lot of other companies are in the
same boat: Semantec's System7 compliant Think C won't be out till late
summer, many other vendors are behind, particularly if their product uses
any sort of networking. Hell, you'll have a hard time getting 6.0.7
compatible versions of a lot of ethernet stuff even now!!

So if you want to complain - call Apple and ask why their development tools
and stable versions weren't available sooner. Then sit down, order a life
from the bar, and wait like "the rest of us"[TM].

And as someone who has actually booted the damn thing up, I'm going back to
6.0.7 and not holding my breath. The publicity far outstrips the utility.

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 Brad Miller		U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept.
 miller@cs.rochester.edu {...allegra!rochester!miller}