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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 12:39:37 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.085232.10303@leland.Stanford.EDU>, thewho@elaine23.stanford.edu (Derek Fong) writes:
> I read in MacWeek that it will cost between 60-100 dollars to upgrade to 7.0.
> I assume that this covers more than just the documentation since the article
> also said that Apple will offer 2 months of phone support for system 7.0.

It will therefore be free in Europe since Apple won't be offering this
phone support outside the US...?

> Therefore, I would doubt its availability via FTP as Apple wants people to
> PAY for their copy of System 7.

Thus splitting the Mac OS environment completely, as the dealers in the
UK tend to be pretty clueless about upgrades and the like, and as a result
most of the non-US machines will just stick at System 6.0.x which is free
and easily available.

-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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