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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rom01 vs rom03
Message-ID: <14731@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 13 Dec 90 17:21:59 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.090059.21608@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>> 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).

Why, does calling GetVersion somehow magically make missing "future
features" appear?  Wow, what an operating system!