Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!galaxy.rutgers.edu!andromeda.rutgers.edu!perez From: perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Willie Perez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mac of the 90's Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 23:09:58 GMT Sender: news@galaxy.rutgers.edu Reply-To: perez@andromeda (Willie Perez) Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Lines: 26 First, System 7.0 (or OS 7 as you would probably call it) will support 68000 based machines as well. Why should they be left out, the Plus and SE are the most popular Macs on the market! So they don't have a Paged Memory Management Unit, they shouldn't be left out. Talking about the 90's, PostScript was the 80's! I hate to say it but Steve Jobs made mistake #1 with his NeXT. It all depends on PostScript. Apple is working on mathematical descriptions for fonts that no longer require postscript for high quality printed fonts. This will dramatically enhance non PostScript printing effectively and lessen the need for a file for each font size to be installed in the system. Apple has made a deal with Microsoft so they can license this technology for the PC's. If you notice, Adobe, creaters of PostScript, have cashed in on this deal and created their own version of outline (not PS) fonts to compete with Apple's system 7.0. System 7.0 WILL support virtual memory. Some company has their own version out also to make money until 7.0 is released. The Mac has Multifinder which is multi-tasing (OK not true multitasking) and has been doing so, will continue to do so and will be the standard for system 7.0 Finally, and I'm not being nasty here, but I resent System 7.0 being referred to as OS 7. The Mac isn't an IBM-PC or compatible. PC jargon should be reserved for it. Willi All opinions are MINE!