Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: System Disk 3.2 Message-ID: <627@n8emr.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 88 15:14:52 GMT References: <6722@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <8429@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Distribution: na Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1) Lines: 36 1. I dont mind paying for something if it is giving me new functionality - but if it consists of fixes of screwups by the company in the first place then I consider THAT to be my right. In this case, there ARE new functional capabilities (with regard to the source capabilitys of the IIgs), so I would be wiling to pay some upgrade amount. 2. The problem is that Apple is NOT sending the System 3.2 disks to the dealers. Dealers who have them got them from someone other than Apple I have been told by Apple employees. Perhaps THEY ordered them from APDA - I dont know. Or perhaps they have a license for Prodos. Apple claims that since the 3.2 disk just has some minor fixes (!!) and no real enhancements (except of course Appletalk, new sound tools, faster booting, cached menus, etc., etc., etc. - 200 pages of updates or so I understand!) that they arent going to 'bother' sending it to the dealers. Instead, folks can get it from someone who has it or get it from APDA. What is interesting about this last point is that Apple is on the verge ( perhaps to announce during Applefest) of taking APDA back over. Now isnt it interesting that the alternative to getting the free upgrades to OS that Apple itself proudly pats itself on the back for is buying into an organization that Apple is about to take over? Seems like they sure will get a nice boost with a lot of new members... 3. The 'reason' besides the above for not sending out 3.2 disk is that another upgrade is coming. I have talked to folks using 'smuggled' copies of beta GS/OS version 2.0 and it supposedly isnt all that great anyways. Slower than System disk 3.2, no multitasking, no really obvious new features, etc. -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.