Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!jonu From: jonu@FtCollins.NCR.com (Jon Udell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release) Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 90 08:02:46 GMT References: <44987@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Sep20.191814.455@sics.se> Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 39 In-reply-to: ollef@sics.se's message of 20 Sep 90 19:18:14 GMT In article <1990Sep20.191814.455@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes: > In <44987@apple.Apple.COM> jkc@apple.com (John Kevin Calhoun) writes: > >Here's today's press release regarding HyperCard 2.0: > (---) > > A version of HyperCard 2.0, which will run existing HyperCard stacks and > >new HyperCard 2.0 stacks, will continue to be shipped with every Macintosh > >computer. > > A complete HyperCard 2.0 authoring system, necessary for developing > >stacks, will be sold by Claris. > Does this mean that we are going to have two versions of HC: HC-runtime and > HC-development, the former semi-PD and the latter strict commercial? > What configurations could be done in a stack with the "free" version of HC? I was wondering the same thing. However if this is the case, the statement >HyperCard 2.0 is expected to appeal to beginners who can put it to >work immediately, and to corporate and commercial developers, for whom >it is a more powerful development environment than ever. is a bit of a contradiction. Unless, of course, they expect that only "corporate and commercial developers" are going to try to program with Hypercard. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Udell NCR Microelectronics Products Division Jon.Udell@FtCollins.NCR.COM 2057 Vermont uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!ncr-fc!jonu Fort Collins, CO 80525 (303) 223-5100 X431 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------