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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CBM's "blessing"
Summary: Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
Message-ID: <7264@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 88 08:32:09 GMT
References: <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7226@well.UUCP> <2001@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Nothing to do with Pixar.
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Quote: "Gorbachev sings tractors:  Turnip!  Buttocks!"  -- Pravda

In article <2001@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> @aplvax.jhuapl.edu:trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
>In article <7226@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>	DPaint ][ required 1.2 to function, and was released about the same
>>time 1.2 came out.  This didn't stop users from buying DPaint ][ and
>>upgrading to 1.2.
>
>	Bad example.  No ROM changes were needed to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2.

	Nor are there for 1.3, unless you want auto-boot capability.

>>	Enlighten me:  How does Apple upgrade its Mac OS?
>
>	With callous disregard for its customer base.  However, they seem to
>	be a little better at maintaining backwards compatability.
>
	Excuse me?  99% of 1.1 software worked under 1.2; *all* 1.2 software
works under 1.3.  I've heard every Finder release is a nightmare (of course,
my sources are biased).

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