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From: dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities $49 special offer & question
Summary: Is Mac falling into the (gasp) IBM rut??!
         Tune in to next week's exciting episode of "Geraldo" to find out!
Keywords: Mac Norton sale of the century IBM
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Date: 19 Mar 91 10:35:50 GMT
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In article <47999@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>Just got a "special offer, supplies limited" in the mail.
>Symantec is offering the Norton Utilities for $49.
>Call 1-800-343-4714, ext.712.  
>
>My question:  Norton seemed to have won the net.utilities
>battle hands-down a few months ago.  Is anybody aware of 
>a reason for the "fire sale"?  Problems with System 7.0?
>
>-- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
>-- 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949


Norton does NOT run on disks used with System 7.0.  Apparently, Sys7
goes through a phase when, if it detects a hard disk used with System 6.x   
or below, it actually *changes* the format of the disk itself.  Writes a 
new boot block, et al.  (That's what the "Updating disk for new system
software..." message is about.)  And Norton can detect these changes,
and it doesn't work with Sys7 disks.

Oh no -- does this mean that Macintosh will start to have divisions in
software/hardware like the (gasp) IBM world??!?  Will we have "pre-7.0"
and "post-7.0" software??!?!?
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