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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Things relating to sys 5.0
Message-ID: <32987@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 89 18:35:47 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?
>
The word from Apple is "this summer".  This fall is not this summer.  I have
no reason to believe that they will not make the summer goal.

>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?
>
This one's up to you - you might get an Apple SCSI card and then decide in
a few months that you want to buy the brand X super-SCSI card with its own
drivers and hardware acceleration.  I would think that if you're not plainly
dissatisfied with the current setup, it's not justified to change it.

>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.
>
Huh?  It always worked under 4.0 for me.
>
>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.
>
How is this unrelated to 5.0 (or did you just want us not to notice you said
"three" at the top?)  :-)

New calls get "supported" by creating new interface files.  I believe Byte
Works has said that they are planning an interface upgrade when 5.0 becomes
available, but I have no more details.  I personally don't believe either
TML or Byte Works products to be "under supported" - TML is diving back into
the GS marked full steam, and Byte Works continues to give excellent online
support on both GEnie and AppleLink - Personal Edition.

>  Thanks for your time.
>
>                             Fuzzy!
>                         Scott Ellsworth
>                         SELLWORTH@HMCVAX
>                         sellswor@jarthur.claremont.edu

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