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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sound (Also file system)
Message-ID: <775@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 17:14:49 GMT
References: <23252@santra.UUCP> <7788@hoptoad.uucp> <23301@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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In article <23301@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:

>Plastic surgery nevers prolongs the file of the patient... It just
>makes the patient look better. They should scrap everything they
>have and start fresh. This is something that Apple Computer will
>not do. System 7.0 retains too much compatibility with old systems.
>The amount of new hacks & kludges tells me that something is very wrong.
>
The problems with doing this are major, you cannot expect thousands of
Mac Users who are using older systems to accept that instantly their Mac's
are completely obsolete just because you feel that the current OS does not
live up to your expectations or what you think it should be. If Apple were
to abandon backward compatability for the reasons you site, the screams
would be louder then they are now about some of the things that Apple is
perceived of doing. While I concur that there is a variety of improvements
that could be made in the Mac OS and I think that 7.0 is a good step in
that direction, eliminating backward compatabilty is not the way to do it.



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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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