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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: System 7.0 and Suitcase--SUMMARY
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.163946.3255@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 16:39:46 GMT
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In article <16966@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>I got a number of replies to the effect that not only there was not a
>limit on the number of fonts, but that there NEVER HAD BEEN.  I found
>this more than a little surprising, since my original reason for
>purchasing Suitcase was to get access to more fonts (I've never been a
>big DA fan).
>
>So I did a little checking, and found that in fact the limit was 20,
>not 15, and the limit was actually on the number of items in a menu.
>For the programs I used at the time, this of course meant that only 20
>of the installed fonts were available.  This limit went away when
>scrolling menus were introduced.  (Trivia question:  Which System
>introduced scrolling menus?)

It was the infamous System 3.0 (the one that randomly destroyed resource
files), shipped with the new Mac Plus in January 1986.


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