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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS 5.0
Keywords: GS/OS
Message-ID: <36633@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 89 19:04:56 GMT
References: <3036@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <5883@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <5883@lindy.Stanford.EDU> lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic) writes:
>
>ptrepan1@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (pat trepanier) writes:
>>I went to the authorized apple dealer yesterday and asked to get the new 5.02
>>version of GS/OS and the salesman said the he didn't know anything about the
>>upgrade, so I am wondering when the apple dealers are suppose to get the new
>>version or what the deal on the new version is.
>>
>   ___
>    |his sounds exactly like the situation everyone had when the original
>GS/OS 5.0 was released.  (Insert usual comment about dealers getting in Mac
>system software the day it's released.)  Is anything being done to get as
>prompt service with GS/OS updates as with HFS ones?
>
>>	ptrepan1@ub.D.UMN.EDU
>  ___________                         ARPA: lunatic@uscsb.UCSC.EDU        /

I've said this before, but it apparently bears repetition.

5.0.2 went in a dealer mailing to all dealers in early November.  Some of the
dealers may not have it yet.  It did go final a while back, but like
(hopefully) all versions of the System Software for *any* platform, developers
get it a few weeks early for compatibility testing.

If it's not there by the end of the month, ask your dealer to look again.  It
will arrive with a set of coupons good for mailing in your original 5.0 disks
and getting mailed a set of 5.0.2 masters, free.  It's a real upgrade program
for all people who have 5.0 originals from Apple; those who don't can probably
get updated the same way they got 5.0.

It's also available for downloading on commercial services; that mailing went
through licensing before the dealer mailing was completed.

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