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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: <1991May17.011103.16702@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 01:11:03 GMT
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In article <52962@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>I said:
>|>The attitude was definitely "better safe than sorry" -- especially
>|>since precious data might be lost. 
>
>Matthew Russotto:
>|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.
>
>Once again, I want to point out the problem of definitions. Apple
>defines "compatible" as "never malfunctions, always works at least as
>well as before."
>
>By that definition, SilverLining is obviously NOT "compatible." That
>incompatibility seems to affect unmounting drives, but MIGHT JUST
>POSSIBLY cause major data loss. I don't know, and neither do you, but
>would it make sense to tell millions of users that it does work when
>it clearly has problems?

It ought to get a 'mostly compatible'-- telling me that my DISK DRIVER isn't
compatible sets off a red flag-- I am not about to go back to hacking up
HDSC Setup and lose my partitions (and certainly the average user wouldn't!).
If I was an average user, I'd say
"SilverLining isn't compatible?  I can't use my disk! Forget this crap."
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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