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From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White)
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Subject: Re: Future Systems?
Keywords: system 7.0,Mac
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Date: 9 Apr 90 03:55:23 GMT
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In article <1990Apr9.012338.24649@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes:
>  I beleive that Apple has said that system 7.0 will be released in 2 ways:
>If you want the manuals, you pay for a boxed copy of the system.  Otherwise,
>you go to the closest Apple dealer w/ a copy of your original system disc
>(with the Apple label) and several blank discs, and the dealer is supposed
>to let you copy the system discs FOR FREE.  (I'm sure someone from Apple
>will correct me if I'm wrong.)
>  I don't know if system 7.0 should be released over the net.  More than a 
>couple of million people will want copies (unlike the (relatively) few
>who needed system 6.05) and I doubt that the net could handle the load
>gracefully.

  Larger sites might want to try to obtain a copy, and advise as many users
as possible to obtain it from there (ie. DEC users should ftp their copy 
from a local DEC machine, and not have 100 people making individual ftp's
to apple.).  I'm curious to see how many (if any) updates for 7.0 end up 
being released.   I believe 'System 6.0' needed versions 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 to
actually become stable, and versions .3, .4, and .5 for support for newer
machines.  You'll definitely have a lot of net traffic if users have to
do ftp's of the set 2 or 3 times before they eventually get a stable version.


						Jeff White
						jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu