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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple should let us e-mail System 7
Message-ID: <1991May15.185019.1395@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 18:50:19 GMT
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In article <6944@cactus.org> rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>
>Based on the Compatibility Checker I just ran, the odds are good that 
>System 7.0 will break your favorite piece of software; unless you are a 
>developer, there's not much benefit in being the very first one on your block 
>to have it, until you get the associated product upgrades.  

The checker lies like a rug.  Apple made, IMO, a big mistake in accepting
mfgr's word for it rather than testing themselves-- it looks like the mfgrs
said that things wouldn't work just to get customers to shell out the $$ for
an upgrade.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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