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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mn.org (Jim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Any way to get Sys. 7.0
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Date: 7 Apr 91 04:27:29 GMT
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Jess M Holle writes in a message to All

JMH> Is there ANY way for the average mortal to get a hold of System 
JMH> 7.0 before May? Unlike many of the people on the net (and like 
JMH> quite a few others), I am not an Apple Partner or the like. I 
JMH> am an APDA member, but that counts for nothing for getting the 
JMH> LATEST software from Apple, ie. System 7.0 or the MPW 3.2 beta. 

This is not completely true.  While Apple has not made beta versions of System software available to anyone other than certified developers, they do sell betas of MPW 3.2.  They are on the ETO disks.  Before you complain about the cost of that, consider the difficulties, both from a marketing standpoint and from a customer satisfaction standpoint, of selling MPW beta versions alongside the latest finals routinely.  The latest ETO actually has two different version 3.2's on it just to make it even trickier.








Also while you beef about this, tell me about the latest beta version of DOS, OS/2, VMS, or whatever you were able to buy from a computer manufacturer.  People complain bitterly about every little bug in System software and they don't quiet down just because the version number they are using happens to have a "b" in it.