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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rom01 vs rom03
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.090059.21608@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 09:00:59 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <9012120502.AA02196@apple.com> C489030@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Greg Hodgdon) writes:

>Disk (GS/OS).  Version 5.0.3 is the latest release, with 5.0.4 rumored
>to be imminent.

Apple's PR Release for Hypercard GS sez that HCGS will REQUIRE 5.0.4. 5.0.3
has some really obscure low-memory-condition bugs that Apple intends to fix
pronto.

> Newer versions offer features that older versions
>didn't, so if an application depends on such new features it will fail
>if you try to execute it using an old System Disk.

Not if you check first by calling GetVersion ($202A).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu