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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 11 New Features
Keywords: 11's,New,Features,Update
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Date: 20 Oct 89 23:13:05 GMT
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In article <25791@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
(bunch of stuff deleted about possible use of unreleased Comm Toolbox)
(and other stuff deleted about what Jurri himself has done)

>As long as all terminal emulators are equal (as long as none of them
>support the toolbox), WK/RR still has a chance in the competition.
>Of course you shouldn't write an emulator that only supports CTB
>connections. You should allow the user to use old-style connections
>and emulators. Most users will not install CTB because it uses
>some disk & RAM space and is probably marginally slower than a
>custom tailored application.

>Perhaps you would like to point out how I have misunderstood the
>communications toolbox.

I think the biggest thing you are overlooking is that the CTB is NOT
released. I have not heard anything for when it will be officially
released..I have heard from different sources, which may not mean
anything that the CTB is a long ways away and may not even come out
with System 7.0. Despite the fact that no one outside of the 
development community has the Comm ToolBox beta's you still feel
and made the statement that any Comm software that is released now
should support unreleased software and is "obsolete"?  Doesn't make sense
to me. 

Perhaps I mistated my point in my previous posting about your intentions,
but as a followup to that, Scott has mentioned to me that "if and when"
the Comm ToolBox is released, e will make the appropriate changes to
White Knight to support it at that time. I got the impression from
his point of view that the CTB is still a ways down the road for the
average MacUser.


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