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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: After Dark 2.0c - WOW!
Message-ID: <27618@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Sep 90 09:43:09 GMT
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Reply-To: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <2887@network.ucsd.edu> dpaight@weber.ucsd.edu (Daniel Paight) writes:
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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>DS> 94,067 bytes. Follows the alphabet list, yours is more than
>DS> a dozen off! 8^)
>
>Hmm. My copy (purchased from Egghead a week ago) says 2.0h. Haven't
>had any problems with crashes.
From: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!bruce

The "bug" we fixed was actually protection against programs that do bad
things, mainly sound.  There are two ways to do sound on the Mac, the good
Apple supported way and the bad unsupported way.

If a program is doing sound the good way (like AD 2.0) and somebody tries
to play sound the bad way, the Mac will crash or do something bad. After
AD 2.0 and AD 2.0h came out we found there were a fair number of programs that
do sound the bad way.  So now AD 2.0s tries to keep this from happening.

Even though the problem is not really ours, people will keep the program
that is more important and nuke the one that is not as important (AD 2.0).
There is nothing wrong with this.  I would do the same.

So instead of waiting for other companies to fix their programs, it is
easier for us to try to avoid them.

Bruce Burkhalter
Berkeley Systems, Inc.