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From: SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET ("Scott, part time fuzzy")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Things relating to sys 5.0
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Date: 7 Jul 89 22:03:00 GMT
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Hello peoples.  I have three sys 5.0 related questions.

1.  Is it easily available?  All of the "authorized dealers" tell me to wait
until "September at the earliest, but more likely october or november."  The
mail order houses claim to not know what it is, and all of my local developers
have moved away.  Is it on Applelink perhaps?  Or is there a kind person who
will mail it?

2.  Do the new drivers justify getting an apple SCSI card?  I have a CMS card
at the moment which works, but it would be kinda nice to get all the speed out
of the little monster that I can.  Put another weay, are the advantages of
having an Apple card and any new drivers worth the hundred bucks it would take
to get one?

3.  Is there now or will there be soon a version of Applelink software that
will work with System 5.0?  I discovered recently that the GS software would
not work with 4.0.  Sigh.

4.  Unrelated question: Has anyone heard os any plans to integrate the new
features of Sys 5.0 (like new calls and resource managers) into Orca pascal?
I ordered TML 2 mostly because I did not want to muck about with
undersupported products.

  Thanks for your time.

                             Fuzzy!
                         Scott Ellsworth
                         SELLWORTH@HMCVAX
                         sellswor@jarthur.claremont.edu