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From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: ** Watchout for the Abaton Interfax **
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.143302.6948@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 91 14:33:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.204213.29770@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In an article dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu rambles:

>I recently purchased an Abaton Interfax 24/96 modem.  The CDEV (not panel,
>cdeve) that comes with it to set up the fax routines on startup is NOT 
>compatible with system 7.0. Everex (company that makes it) claims about 
>the software update: "It is done, but we are not releasing it until 7.0 
>comes out." I primarily wanted to warn developers and beta-testers about this.
>For those of us still stuck with 6.xx it is no problem.  But I have a couple 
>of friends who are developers and using 7.0b4 (or later, not sure) and who 
>were thinking about a purchasing the same. It really kind of miffed me that 
>the software was incompatible, since my experience on machines runnin system 
>7.xx has been that there are very few things that aren't (at least the things
> that matter)

This is a pretty unfair post.  System 7.0 is UNRELEASED software, that has
been through many updates recently, and it is quite understandable that 
companies would rather not release an update to their software if it might
simply break in a later beta version.

If software came out that was incompatible with System 5.x, as many are, i'm
sure you wouldn't be complaining about incompatibilities, however you do
see the justice in complaining about incompatibilities with something that
hasn't been released.

Fact is, there are other software packages that will have to be updated to
be compatible with 7.0... MANY companies have their 7.0 updates sitting on
simply waiting for May 13th... let's not get on Abaton's case about a
reasonable policy.

- Chris

 
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