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From: Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: hypercard 2.0 confusion
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.154120.23896@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Sep 90 15:41:20 GMT
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.
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It seems to me that the Apple management are a bit arrogant, as
far as their expectations of the Mac's penetration into various
markets.  An example: here I am, about to embark on building a
piece of visual software, and wondering whether to use Hypercard
or Interviews/X-windows on another machine.  So Hypercard 1.x
wasn't really what I wanted, and I thought I'd wait for 2.0
before deciding.  I may still wait (after all, never do today
what you can do tomorrow :-); but I could just as easily go
over, knowing that when/if Unix appears on Macs, I can just
port things over.  If other people make the same kinds of
choices, Hypercard could end up dying (and I had hoped that
Hypercard 3 would be a parallel implementation...).
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