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From: gjditchfield@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard 2.0
Summary: Don't hold your breath.
Message-ID: <31728@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 16:38:02 GMT
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In article <14046@boulder.Colorado.EDU> johnsonr@spot.colorado.edu (Richard Johnson) writes:
>...  Is this on the list of things to fix for HyperCard 2.0?

HyperCard 2.0 is a myth, a mirage.  It isn't even vaporware; its been
more than a year since anyone from Apple even hinted that HyperCard's bugs
might someday be fixed, let alone that a major upgrade might happen.
   Why should Apple bother creating HyperCard 2.0?  They give HyperCard
away;  a new release wouldn't sell that many more Macs.   And it _would_
take bread from the mouths of HyperCard's commercial competitors.  Apple
doesn't want to do that.  Remember how often MacPaint upgrades came out?
   If you want fixes, buy a commercial hypertext program, and pester its
authors.

    Glen Ditchfield  gjditchfield@violet.uwaterloo.ca  Office: DC 2517
Dept. of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1