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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Cheaper System 7.0 docs
Message-ID: <17365@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:32:05 GMT
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The consensus here appears to be that we can get System 7.0 for free,
but the documentation will cost $99.  This brings up two points:

1.  What is in the documentation?  Is it Apple's usual "This is a
mouse" style documentation, or is there something in it that I might
possibly want?

2.  If someone here on the net would write up user-level documentation
spelling out the differences between Systems 6 and 7 (so no one felt
they had to buy the $99 package), this would make a very popular
posting.  Probably it would only be about a dozen pages long.  Any
volunteers?  You beta testers could write it now and have it ready to
go when System 7.0 is released...I'd like to do it myself, but I'm not
a beta tester (I'll volunteer to help edit it, though).


-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --
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|   Now there's Windows 3.0.                                            |
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