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From: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: no 6.0.4 upgarde path
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Date: 22 Jan 90 20:53:36 GMT
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In article <3683@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier) writes:
>From article <2661@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>, by kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan):
>> [quoting APDAlog:] "...there is no need to upgrade to
>> Macintosh System Software v. 6.0.4" and that system 6.0.2 or system 6.0.3 is
>> sufficient.  (page C-48 of the APDALog, right hand column)
>
>Ah yes, but as has been prodigiously pointed out to me in tons of hate mail,
>you need System 6.0.4 to run HyperCard 1.2.5 because of Sound Manager
>enhancements. "Would Apple be so stupid as to release software that required
>an unstable OS version?" one MacFanatic asked. The answer is left as an
>exercise for the reader.

I just purchased a IIcx (not a IIci) and it came with 6.0.4 and Hypercard
1.2.5, so it would seem that either Apple put the wrong software in the
box (unlikely), or that, although you don't *have* to use 6.0.4 on anything
but a IIci or Portable, there is no particular reason not to upgrade.

-- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College

jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu