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From: iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HAM (or whatever it's called)
Message-ID: <1991May29.165016.9560@sequent.com>
Date: 29 May 91 16:50:16 GMT
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I got this response from claris.  It sounds like $$$ is getting in the
way of the release of a GREAT product.  %^-(

>I have seen, and posted myself, lot's of postings about a hierarchical
>menu app for System 7.0.  Could someone please post a definitive spec
>sheet about this??  The basic bio-sheet would do:

>1.  What is it called officially (if it's known yet)

Hierarchical Apple Menu (HAM, for short)


>2.  What does it do (please be as specific as possible)

Does hierarchical menus for nested folders in your Apple Menu Folder (up
to either four or six levels).


>3.  When will it be available (please give an actual date i.e. 6/1/91)

Scheduled for release somewhere between 10June and 30June.


>4.  What will it cost (free, shareware fee, commercial product price)

Undetermined at this time.  The determination as to whether it will be
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shareware or commercial is the main thing delaying release.
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>5.  Who is writing it.

Chris Derossi of Apple Computer.  One of the meanest of the Blue Meanies.
He was also the author of Dimmer, among other things.

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My comments:

When an employee voluntarily??  creates a useful application, the
company HAS to automatically stop the presses to see if it can make a
quick buck!!  I don't mean to slam Claris, but I suppose if I had
written the application I might think about making a few $$$.  But a
multi-million dollar corporation could benefit from making something
like HAM public domain.  Like Public Folder, HAM could show users how
Claris wants to make the mac the workstation of choice.  With all of
the GREAT new features of System 7.0 and the new PD apps that will
surely follow, how can the PC-compatible's keep up with this kind of
GREAT technology. %^-)

Claris makes great software.  We use their products here and are very
happy with them.  I hope Claris doesn't slow down progress by heaping
on bureaucracy.

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