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From: tecot@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: what's different between sys 4.1 and 4.0?
Message-ID: <775@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 22:36:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.775
Posted: Fri May 15 22:36:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 00:00:18 EDT
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Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <12500010@acf4.UUCP> spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) writes:
>
>Huh? Wha..? Wait a minute....   My complaint is that Apple decided to break 
>the new system by usurping a system global.

An UNDOCUMENTED system global at that.

>System 4.1 is the official release
>system, it has components that I need in my development work, namely
>the script manager (among others).  Besides, MacTerminal is not the only
>program that breaks.  Many, many programs that followed the user interface
>guidelines and Apple's recommendations to the letter have been broken.  
>(e.g., UW, keyboard drivers, some da's, many games, etc)

Really?  One of Apple's recommendations is to NEVER use undocumented
features and variables.  All of the above do just that.

>I simply would like to find out WHEN Apple is planning of remedying this rather
>annoyng situation.

Wait for the new MacTerminal.  Or use another program.  I use pcLINK on my
SE.  Or, if you are really attached to MacTerminal, run it using system 3.2.
Use system 4.1 for your development work.

>BTW, I don't want to sound like I am gonna get an uzi and wreck Cupertino.  I
>think the new system is lots better than 3.2 or the 4.0 that I got in the
>last developers' update.  Its just really a drag to get blown out of the water
>by Apple deciding not to "waste" a couple of more bytes of system globals.
>
>
>Dave Spector

The reason BasicGlob was chosen is because it was the only remaining global
in the global space of ALL Macintoshes (Even the classic Mac).  This allows
us to continue to add functionality to older machines even after the
global space is gone.

						_emt