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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: system 7.0
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>>BECAUSE IT BREAKS THINGS.  Like HyperCard 1.2, for example.  Ok?
>Thats why you get Hypercard 2.0 with it, steve.

Ah, yes, HyperCard 2.0 is on the 6.0.7 disks.  I forgot :-).

Upgrading HyperCard is no small matter, as you have lots of stacks to
sort through (let's see, how DO I copy the data from my old clunky "Address"
stack into my new, spiffy "Address" stack?), and then you have to "convert
stack" everything you've written.  All in all, it's a pain I don't have
time for at the moment.

It's also a pain to have lots of sounds and sound applications broken.
I picked HyperCard as an example so the knee-jerk, holier-than-thou,
apps-oughta-follow-Apple-rules crowd would keep their mouths shut.

I guess I got the knee-jerk, why-would-you-ever-use-a-back-revision-
of-anything crowd instead.  Upgrades can cost significant amounts of time,
money, and hassle.  Even though the 6.0.5 -> 6.0.7 upgrade doesn't
(I am so grateful for ftp site and the new installer...), the fact
that it forces me to upgrade 43 other things makes it an
INDIRECT pain in the posterior.

Apple understands this, and so recommends 6.0.5 for macs that don't HAVE
to have 6.0.7, because the improvements are not earth-shattering.  Which is
exactly what somebody from Apple said many articles ago.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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