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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: ** Watchout for the Abaton Interfax **
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Date: Sat, 4 May 91 21:08:47 GMT

I just wanted to mention the major reason that CE Software's QuickMail
is not compatible with System 7 -- it's not 32-bit clean.  Note that
this is also a problem under A/UX, so it's not really a matter of a
company supporting a non-released version of system software; it's
more a matter of a company NOT FIXING A BUG in their software.

What do you have to do to make yourself 32-bit dirty? [that's not a
rhetorical question, I'm trying to remember..]  Lessee, one way is to
set bits in the highest byte of a handle to mark a handle as locked or
whatever instead of using Toolbox calls to do it [LockHandle() etc].
Another has to do with NuBus boards that have to call SwapMMUMode() or
something and are passing addresses to functions around [which can
have a "dirty" byte in it] -- these guys have to call StripAddress()
on the addresses i think.

Anyways, I was NOT asking CE Software to be compatible with System 7
per se -- rather, I want them to FIX THEIR BUGS.  And, basically, they
said "we're not fixing our bugs until System 7 is released."

I mean, really, what does the release date of a version of system
software have to do with fixing bugs in your own software?  32-bit
cleanliness has been around a LOT longer than rumours about/copies of
System 7.0{d,a,b,fc}[0-9]+.

					Reid
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