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From: kern@arecibo.aero.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: hypercard 2.0--only vapor?
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Date: 13 Sep 89 17:02:34 GMT
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In article <cZ3GFti00WB5MZ1XVN@andrew.cmu.edu>, jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) writes...
> 
>I hate to burst anybody's bubble, but since Hypercard 2.0 does not yet exist,
>and has not been officially announced, it may be unwise to assume that it
>will EVER appear.  
> 
>I am inclined to believe that Hypercard technology will live on in future
>versions of the Macintosh system, but I have to remain skeptical that a
>radically improved version of Hypercard will appear any time soon.  If you
>can't use it, it ain't there.
> 

Talking to the Apple representatives at the IJCAI conference in Detroit
three weeks ago, they said that Bill Atkinson is currently working on
an update of Hypercard.  They wouldn't talk a lot about it (the typical
"proprietary" answer), but they did leave me to believe that an upgrade
will eventually come out.

	JC Kern

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