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From: marcv@reed.UUCP (Marc Visnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
Message-ID: <16208@reed.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 91 07:06:48 GMT
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Reply-To: marcv@reed.UUCP (Marc Visnick)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <668300445.4@mmug.mmug.edgar.mn.org.org> Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mmug.edgar.mn.org.org (Jim Spencer) writes:
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>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 that have applied to 6.x: it won't include documentation but you will be able to buy a set that includes manuals if you want.
> 

My understanding (as gleaned from publications, newsgroup chatter and rumor)
is that distribution will be through dealers _only_ (not through FTP or
other online sources), and will be between $50-100. Presumably, this includes
documentation and the unprecedented 90-day tech support. (By-line: A couple 
weeks ago, Apple placed an ad in the UC Berkeley newspaper, looking for
students to staff its hotlines.)

Another kit will be available to users installing 7.0 on multiple systems.
It will be on CD-ROM, and will include on-line documentation. (Pricing on
this kit is not yet known.)

The remaining question is: can those of us (The Rest Of Us?) who have no need
for docs or support bring a couple of blanks into C-land or B-land or wherever
to get copies of 7.0? Anyone?


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