Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!altos!vsi1!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Thoughts on System 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 23:27:28 GMT References: Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 51 In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > >Hmm.. Over the past few months (years, its almost seemed), of voyaging through >the "vapor", System 7.0 it seems, is sceduled to debut on May 13th. > >At the time of this writing, (5-10-91), I havent heard much in the line of >hype from Apple. Hah, will the release date be bumped again, or will be the >"mother of a system" the Mac users want it to be? > Today is 5-13-91, and I saw on FNN this morning that Apple did indeed announce that it was shipping system 7. It will be interesting to see what exactly its new look and features are. By the way, Apple's stock was up $1.25 in the first minute of trading... >Now then. Why bring this up in an Amiga conference you ask? For this reason: >System 7.0 availability for Amax and Amax II users. Right now, most Amax users >are plodding along with System 6.05 with a Finder.. No multifinder. > I run Multifinder under AMaxx all the time... >Being that Apple has been a little mean with their roms, not selling them >seperate and all,the whole boxed and shrinkwrapped future of ReadySoft's Amax >emulator looks a bit bleek at best. > Readysoft claims their sales haven't been hurt (yet). > >So whats the deal? Whats the probability of System 7.0 being released for >Amax? Slim to none? Or am I just crazy.. > > Hopefully it will work. > > >Never trust a hippie.. >Arctangent -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************