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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard 2.1...
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Date: 24 May 91 02:35:16 GMT
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In article <eoliver.674499783@hcunix.haverford.edu>, eoliver@hcunix.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
> 
> As an owner of Hypercard 1.2.5, I must say that I am extremely
> frustrated with the fact that Hypercard and the System Software is now a
> paying item.  I have completely stopped using Hypercard in response to
> the charge they are assesing for the new versions.  The reason people
> used hypercard was that (1) you knew everyone had it so you could write
> help stacks or small stacks that did nifty things (2) it was easy to get
> if you didn't have it.  Now, not everyone has it or is going to bother
> getting it.  I certainly have no intention of doing so.

Gee -- it was real difficult for me to get HyperCard 2.0.  Let's see.  Oh
yes, I just got it from my local users group.

> Also, having used all the mac operatining systems back as far as 1.0,
> I can tell you that most of them especially since around 3.2 have been
> extremely BUGGY.

Really?  Since 6.0.3, I haven't had any crashes at all attributable to the
system or finder.  I've been using 7.0 since it was in beta with few crashes,
mostly due to using extremely old software.  7.0 is extremely solid, otherwise
I wouldn't have installed it on my home machine, and certainly wouldn't
have used it on my development machine at work.  I'm even using programs
listed as "Not compatible" with little or no problems.

Lighten up and have fun.  Install System 7 today and get some exciting work
done! (or little work done -- I made the mistake of letting my boss install
it on his machine.  I haven't seen him so happy - nor have I seen him spend
so much time "playing" with an OS :-)

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