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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting started with Mac programming
Message-ID: <2800@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 89 01:20:48 GMT
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In article <529@sunfs3.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>In article <15913@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen) writes:
>>In article <11542@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM
>>(David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>>
>>>You *must* have Inside Mac.  There is no substitute.
>
>True.
>
>>MUCH OF VOLUMES I AND II IS OBSOLETE!!!!  EVEN IF YOU ARE WORKING ON A MAC+!!!
>
>True, but there is no need to scream at us.

	False, and true. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 still constitute the standard
reference for things like the general user-interface guidelines, QuickDraw,
the Menu, Window, Control, Dialog, and VBL Managers, the Segment Loader,
and other useful things. Volume IV sports a rewritten File Manager chapter,
which is essential, since it supersedes and supplements the one in Volume II,
and other parts of Volume IV and V merely supplement basic information which
is presented in the first 3 volumes.

>>Volume V covers both the SE and the II, so you don't need it if you
>>are sure that your software is never going to run on either of those
>>machines.  
>
>False.  Other than Color QuickDraw, nearly everything in Vol V now
>applies to the Macintosh Plus--in fact to every Plus-or-later
>Macintosh.

Conditionally true - the non- color- and slot-related material is only relevant
if the Plus is running System 4.1 or later of the System software.

>Patches are wonderful things.

	True, if used correctly. :-)

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