Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GRAPPLER C/MAC/GS COMPATIBILITY PROBLEM Message-ID: <53116@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 20 May 91 19:25:46 GMT References: <9105161429.AA11984@apple.com> <53072@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 32 In article nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) writes: >In article <53072@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: >> Unfortunately for them, the new IW driver on 5.0.3+ does white-space >> compression. The old driver would print large areas of white space in a > You mean > Unfortunately for us (Apple II), .... > >nagendra No, I don't. Don't put words in my mouth. I mean unfortunately for _them_. They cut a corner in an attempt to optimize their product for one target market and created a future (now present) incompatibility with another target market. It's not unfortunate for the Apple II -- what would be unfortunate for the Apple II would be to let broken peripherals like this box stop Apple from developing newer and more powerful ImageWriter software such as that included on 5.0.3 and later. Breaking rules is always a compatibility risk, and they knew it, so it's unfortunate for Orange Micro and their Apple IIgs customers. Using software or hardware that doesn't follow compatibility rules can leave you stuck with older versions required to use the product (in this case, the pre-5.0.3 ImageWriter driver), but it still works under those conditions. It's not an Apple II community-wide catastrophe and I didn't "mean" anything resembling that. -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Developer Technical | The opinions expressed herein are Support, Apple Computer, Inc. | not those of Apple Computer, and Personal mail only, please. Thanks. | shame on you for thinking otherwise. ^^^^^^^^ Technical questions are not personal. Please post them instead. ============================================================================