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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Things relating to sys 5.0
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Date: 8 Jul 89 23:05:14 GMT
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>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?

System software is copyrighted and commercial.  Mail order houses probably
will NOT carry it at all (do they carry System 4?).  Although it was
announced at AppleFest (and some beta versions were around for display
purposes), Apple hasn't announced an availablility date.  Some rumors say
August, but your dealers' estimate of September is probably reasonable.
If you keep reading this list, you're likely to know within hours of official
release.

Don't look for it on AppleLink, if somone mails you a copy it's likely to
be one of the beta versions that was "liberated" at Applefest (known to have
bugs that can do wonderful things like scramble the file directories on
your hard disk).

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