Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!blissmer From: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <10904@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 21:30:12 GMT References: <47402@ut-emx.uucp> <16954@chopin.udel.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 22 > Less time than it's taken Apple to get System 7.0 working; Commodore hasn't >made several official announcements of its availability "next month", or >whenever, only to push that date back shortly afterwards. Apple has NEVER made an official announcement about availability before five weeks ago when May 13 was annouced as the launch date for 7.0. You have been misinformed. > Someone I know who has dealings with both Apple and Commodore on a >regular basis told me that for Apple to consider an OS upgrade releasable, >they require it to be compatible with 65% of existing software. Commodore >sets its requirements up around 90-95%. I have a feeling there'll be a lot >of unhappy Mac users who upgrade as soon as it's released & find that their >most important application die. > I can't say what Apple percentage standard is, but I still haven't found an application that ran under 6.0.7 that doesn't run under my 7.0 beta copy. That's 100%, not 65%. If Apple really was shooting for 65% they should have released it last year. They probably would have still broke 70% ;-). Apple has definately done 7.0 right. There is so much functionality added, I can't imagine someone not upgrading. It is truly the best OS I've seen (for a power user, or a casual user), that includes NeXT and Amiga 2.0 beta.