Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 Upgrades Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 05:23:30 GMT References: <52814@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: mjohnson@Apple.COM's message of 13 May 91 20: 13:26 GMT In article <52814@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes: >The System 7 Finder offers users a new capability known as aliases. Aliases >allow all Macintosh users to organize their system the way they prefer and puts >information just a double-click away. An alias, usually about 2K in size, of *WHY* does it take so much space? >and control panel compatibility before moving to System 7. The Compatibility >Checker, available in the United States, includes information on over 650 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [...] >Upgrade Kit and the System 7 Group Upgrade Kit. Apple will include System 7 in >the box with all new Macintosh computers by mid-summer in the United States. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Why just here? Distribution reasons, or does Sys7 include "sensitive technologies" that the government's weasels don't want leaving the country? The former really doesn't seem too likely (at least, for systems in English)--shipping things around the world is pretty fast; surely they could make it out by mid-summer. Of course, translation could slow it down... -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Welcome to the Real World. Enjoy the | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | show. | \============================================================================/