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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: New Macs--System 6.0.7
Message-ID: <28859@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:46:18 GMT
References: <9331@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <9331@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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>     According to the bits I've managed to acquire of the Mac Classic/etc.
>press release, System 6.0.7 is required to use some of their new features (the
>microphone for sound input, etc.).
>     Does this new System release have anything of interest to owners of older
>Macs?  When will it be available?  Will it be on apple.com?
>     (To think I just upgraded to 6.0.5 last week...  it's so hard to stay
>current these days... :) )
From: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!bruce

Actually System 6.0.7 is a *very* late bug fix.  System 6.0.6 was suppose to
be the version for the new machines (and it is the version that is in the box).
Taped to the outside of the box is System 6.0.7 and note saying to use it and
not 6.0.6.

This was a big surprise.  Developers get alpha, beta, and final versions of the
System before it ships and we never heard a word about it.  I dug around 
AppleLink and found a note saying that 6.0.7 fixed an AppleTalk bug. It did 
not have any other details but it must have been a bad bug.

Bruce Burkhalter
Berkeley Systems, Inc.