Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu!agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu!GAYNOR From: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Thank You! Message-ID: <1991May16.134616.3209@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 16 May 91 13:46:16 GMT References: <2460@winnie.fit.edu> <1991May15.195822.25192@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,<1991May15.233457.23194@wam.umd.edu> Sender: news@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu (Usenet news) Reply-To: gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu In article <1991May15.233457.23194@wam.umd.edu>, ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes: > >How many mac-addicts out there *really* expect to see a system 8? Not just >soon, but ever? [...] >I wonder how much farther the OS can go in this direction without getting >rid of all the kludge code and starting over from scratch! I'd almost bet that 8.0 -will- be a complete rewrite, but with a lot of the features of 7.0. Perhaps it will completely object-oriented. But I beleive that there will be a System 8.0, although it may not be called that.. --- Jim Gaynor - AgVAX System Manager - Academic Computing - Ohio State University VMS: UNIX: Disclaimer : All opinions expressed here are mine and only mine. So there! Witty Quote: "Think, think, think, think..." - Winnie-the-Pooh, Taoist Bear.