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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Features?
Message-ID: <991.269a0ccb@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Jul 90 05:13:47 GMT
References: <70500011@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In <70500011@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu says

"The list of [features omitted from System 7.0 to get it out on
time] include: ... hot links, ..."

No, it is certainly not omitted. In fact, System 7.0 includes more than
publish/subscribe (the Apple form of "hot links"), it has a highly
elaborate, high-level interprocess communication mechanism in the
form of AppleEvents. And there is a low-level mechanism as well.

At the Australian Developer's Conference last week, it was made
quite clear to us that publish/subscribe is the single most important
feature of System 7.0 as far as developers are concerned, and
that users should come to take publish/subscribe support as
much for granted as copy-and-paste is today.

DDE, eat your heart out...

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