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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard 1.2.5?  WAAAAIIT a second here...
Message-ID: <10545@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 89 02:21:18 GMT
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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In Apple's official pres releases about the new Macintosh Portable and
Macintosh IIci computers, reference is made to the fact that both of them
come with the system software and HyperCard 1.2.5 already installed on their
hard disks.

HOLD ON a second here.  First of all, when did HyperCard 1.2.5 come into
being?  Why wasn't it mentioned before?

Secondly, unless my math is off, the next version after 1.2.2 would be 1.2.5.
So that means Apple screwed up... unless... naaw.  They wouldn't have been
withholding versions from us, would they have?  No, it's just another scrap
of proof that Apple can't count (LaserWriter 4.0 to 5.2 to 6.0?  Riight.)

Thirdly, is this the upgrade to HyperCard that had been promised us?  If so,
then this means that HyperCard 2.0 is really vaporware, at least until the
dogcows come home.

Fourthly, and finally, the most important question:

What does 1.2.5 do that 1.2.2 didn't?  (What did 1.2.3 and 1.2.4 do that...
no, I won't ask that.)  What bugs does it fix?  (What bugs *doesn't* it fix?
... no, I won't ask that either.)

Er, um, fifthly:

Where do we get it?


  Ah, the glories of Hyperprogramming!

     << Brian >>
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