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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox questions
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Date: 6 Dec 89 15:14:46 GMT
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In article <37029@apple.Apple.COM>, austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
> I do!  It takes too long already to boot up a machine, and this suggestion just
> doubled the time necessary!

I'm all for keeping boot times down.  Also, maybe I have a different view
of the CT than Tim, but I see it not as an add-on product (such as MacTCP)
but as a new piece of system software that includes a way to retrofit it
into earlier versions of the System.  As such, it belongs in the System,
just as much as List Manager did when it came out, or the new TextEdit
package, or whatever.

From a pragmatic point of view, I can agree with Tim
that it might be nice to be able to install & de-install the CT easily
until System 7.0, but I think that the design goal of making it an integral
part of the System override this concern, especially given the fact that
it does take pains not to permanently gleep up a lot of memory on small
machines--this makes the major concern one of disk space, as I see it.

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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