Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls61!bnr.ca!bschmidt
From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt (BNR))
Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.173725.19265@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research
References: <668300445.4@mmug.mmug.edgar.mn.org.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1991 17:37:25 GMT

In article <668300445.4@mmug.mmug.edgar.mn.org.org> 
Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mmug.edgar.mn.org.org (Jim Spencer) writes:
> The word I keep hearing is that System 7.0 will be basically distributed 
just like the previous versions of system software, i.e. it will be free 
to all Mac owners not just to those who purchased a Mac recently.  The 
only change that I'm aware of it that it may not be available from on-line 
sources because of its size.  Presumably the same restrictions will apply 
to 7.0
                                                         ^^^^^
Huh?  Since when was apple concerned about the $$ one pays for compuserve 
or applelink?  Size is not an argument against posting Sys. 7.0, rather 
it's an *incentive* for the commercial operators to post.  As for 
apple.com, if posting Sys. 7.0 is going to bog down their ftp server, why 
not limit anonymous ftp access to say 25 simultaneous logins like 
Sumex-aim.stanford.edu recently did?  Or just take the apple.com ftp 
server off a Mac and run it on a SPARC.  :-)   :-)

Ben Schmidt     Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.   bschmidt@bnr.ca