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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Cheaper System 7.0 docs
Message-ID: <52402@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 May 91 17:27:46 GMT
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dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
|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:
|
|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).

The rumor is that there are several Hypercard stacks that do just
this, and also provide compatibility information with your current
apps, inits, etc. They are supposedly shipping with System 7.0.

Now wouldn't that be reasonable and exactly what you'd expect from
Apple?

bill coderre
part of apple's evil plan