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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Portable yes, Mac NO !
Keywords: Software BOMB
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Date: 23 Nov 89 02:36:43 GMT
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In article <1259@key.COM> russ@xanadu.key.COM (Russell Donnan) writes:
>
>and the software had to make an assumption about it.  Now, please tell
>me, if you had to make a guess...  Would you think that a new Mac would
>have Color QD?  I know I would.  Anyway, I'm sure the new software will
>be out soon enough.  Well worth the wait for the Mac Portable IMHO.

It is not necessary to guess whether a machine has color QuickDraw.  A call
to SysEnvirons will tell you that.  This will work on all future machines.

SysEnvirons also indicates the exact model.  It is incorrect that a value
greater than some value implies that the machine has color QuickDraw.
(That's what people seemed to say was the problem in this case; I don't know
if it is or not.)

A similar thing happened when the Mac IIx came out.  Some programs were
testing to see if the machine contained a 68020 in it to decide whether
color QD was available, and failed.

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