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From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: New Macs--System 6.0.7
Message-ID: <10794@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 90 18:39:36 GMT
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In article <2480@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) 
writes:
> In article <28859@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn 
article <9331@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu 
(Mark Phaedrus) writes: writes:
> >Actually System 6.0.7 is a *very* late bug fix.
> >...6.0.7 fixed an AppleTalk bug.  
> 
> According to MacWEEK 10.16.90:
> 
> ...Apple recently discovered two rare but annoying bugs.  One could, under
> certain circumstances, cause the Mac to indicate, erroneously, that it had
> lost its connections with an AppleShare server or a printer.  The other
> sometimes caused the LC to fail to recognize its keyboard until the mouse
> was moved.

A more accurate description of the "AppleTalk" bug is that because of a 
late bug fix for AppleTalk, AppleTalk's patch to SysEnvirons wasn't being 
installed in all cases, and in certain circumstances, SysEnvirons would 
return a version of 0 for AppleTalk, indicating that it wasn't installed. 
Some software would indicate that you need to install (or enable) AppleTalk. I don't believe that you could "lose its connections." 6.0.7 fixes this, and some bug with one of the ADB traps.

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