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From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Applications for Sys 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.211650.8599@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:16:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.173734.6017@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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In article <1991Apr3.173734.6017@leland.Stanford.EDU>, nmaluf@leland.Stanford.EDU (N. Maluf) writes:
> 
> What will happen to the applications that currently run under system 6.0x, 
> e.g., Microsoft Word, PageMaker...etc, when we (hopefully one day) switch 
> to System 7.0 ?
> Will we have to reinvest a fortune in buying applications compatible with 
> System 7.0 ?
> 
> NM

Well, I've been using the beta4 version for about 3 weeks, and I can honestly
say that *EVERY* application *I've* run has worked with no problems. This
includes MS Word 4.0, Think Pascal, heck even old programs and games work
without flaw. I don't see why everyone is getting so uptight about their
current applications not running. Apple knows how to support new as well as
old. The only problems I have had were with INIT's and CDEV's. Since these are
usually very specific and low-level operating pieces of code, a lot of things
they were created to fix or help have been updated, changed, fixed, etc...

But as for applications, like apple says: "Application software that conforms
to the Inside Macintosh guidelines should be compatible with System 7."
This DOESN'T mean that they will support new features of System 7. They WILL
have to be updated to support IAC and AppleEvents. But definitely should be
just as usuable as with 6.0.x.

Dan

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