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Subject: 2.0 Versions of Bundled software
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Date: 1 Oct 90 13:36:52 GMT
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absinthe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Faken) writes:
   Hello. I was wondering if it was possible for Cube users to get new
   versions of the bundled software and/or new bundled software (e.g.
   Interface builder, AppInspector, Edit, etc...) through, perhaps, ftp..?
   I don't see any damage to NeXT in this, and it might even encourage
   sales more.

Probably not.  Most of the apps in 2.0 rely on new shared libraries, so
they wouldn't work under 1.0.  If a program _did_ work, though, it'd then
proceed to coredump once you tried out that neat little feature in the
Xxxxx menu, and there'd be no end to the complaints NeXT'd receive about
that.

I think the forced upgrade to 2.0 is sort of a good idea.  In its way, 1.0
wasn't complete, and hopefully they're sort of acknowledging this . . .
It's alot better than IBM/Microsoft trying to keep full reverse
compatibility with fundamentally stupid ideas that the early,
extremely limited machines have.  32M limit on hard drives!  How can
they live in that?

scott hess
scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	(Stuart)
NeXT Campus Consultant		(Not much, really)
GAC Undergrad			(Horrid.  Simply Horrid.  I mean the work!)