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From: guido@boring.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FLASH!!!  New/old rumors from BMUG BBS/MacQueue BBS!
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 08:19:55 EST
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Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Thanks to George Erhart for posting these details about the new ROM.
There were some details that bothered me, though:

>You can now do a 'seed fill'; this is best described as what happens when you
>use the Paint bucket in MacPaint.  You can also do lasso simulations with
>another new Quickdraw ROM call.
>
>There can now be 32,000 fonts, not the previous limit of 512.

These and other "useful additions" to the ROM can be seen as attempts from
Apple to outdate old Macs.  Soon, most marketed applications will use the
new features, and thus the owners of old Macs have the choice: upgrade or
stick to the old software.  As the owner of a new Mac, I don't feel very
comfortable with this...

-- 
	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)