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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
Subject: Re: Apple's incompatibility with itself
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.191431.27158@MDI.COM>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:14:31 GMT
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In article <676606177.0@macgate.fidonet> Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Spencer) writes:
>
>Bzzzt. Wrong.  Thank you for playing.
>
>Unfortunately for those of us who are not certified developers, there
>is no choice ( at least as of today, June 9) other than to use a beta 
>version of 3.2 and even that can only be obtained from ETO.  The final 
>shell has apparently made available on the Golden Master but the  
>riff-raff don't get this.

Bzzzt. Wrong.  Thank you for playing.

The System 7 GM CDRom contains a BETA version of the 3.2 shell (3.2b12).
It does NOT contain final versions of any of the MPW software. To put it
another way, "certified" developers (AKA Apple Partners) don't have the
final version either. Of course, if you had ETO, you could be using betas
of 3.3 instead of betas of 3.2. :-).

Thus everyone (except Apple Folks themselves) is in the same boat, waiting
for MPW 3.2 to release. On the other hand, both 3.2 beta and 3.3 beta (both
from ETO) appear to be quite stable under System 7.

Jack Brindle
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