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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: <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 22:19:44 GMT
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In article <52925@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:

>Matthew Russotto:
>|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.

>Um, hate to disagree, but there are about 165 people here to set you
>straight. They tested System 7 with "over 777" pieces of software
>compiling the reports. (source: Roger Heinen)

My source is the compatibility checker stack itself....
---
Macintosh System 7 has proven compatible with most recent versions of the most
widely used Macintosh software. The developers of these products have provided
Apple with the information that appears in this report.
---


>Note that your definitions might be different: Apple would not claim a
>piece of software was "compatible" or "mostly compatible" if it
>crashed randomly but infrequently. In the case of MacWrite II, "mostly
>compatible" means that it doesn't work right with True Type fonts
>bigger than 127 points. As best I know (and I am not one of the
>testers) avoiding fonts >127 points means that MacWrite II doesn't
>have any problems. 
>
>The attitude was definitely "better safe than sorry" -- especially
>since precious data might be lost. 
>
>Apple also elected not to provide detailed reports of exactly what the
>problems were in its stack. This definitely hampers the cheapskate who
>won't upgrade his/her software, but has the side-effect of making the
>stack fit on less than 100 disks.

Cheapskate?  I have 21 pieces of software listed as 'Must Upgrade'. Figure
out the price of THAT!

Some, like Silverlining, is obvious crap-- SilverLining works, except that
you can't unmount volumes (DeskTop manager interferes).


SUM Tools works.  Even HyperCard 2.0 works.
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