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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 1.2.5?  WAAAAIIT a second here...
Message-ID: <34913@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 05:42:43 GMT
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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?

It was announced today. Before today, it didn't exist. The only changes are
ones necessary for support of the IIci and Portable. No functionality
changes.

>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?

I don't understand numbering, either. I assume that 1.2.4 was something that
never got released for unknown reasons.

>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.

Don't bet on it. 1.2.5 is a maintenance release only to suppose the new
hardware.

>Er, um, fifthly:

>Where do we get it?

Unless you get a IIci or a Portable, you don't need it. It'll get cycled
through stock in manufacturing, so over time it'll sh in all systems and
with all the standard packagingin.


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