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From: bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Were all Mac Tech Notes revised?
Message-ID: <10050032@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 88 22:42:45 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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>When I got the most recent set of Tech Notes, I noticed that the index now
>shows that many of the older notes have been revised (with a 3/88 revision
>date, if I remember right).  I called up APDA to find out if subscribers
>would receive new versions of the older notes.  In typical APDA tradition,
>the customer service reps had no idea what was going on: "Uhh, we don't
>know, all we do is sell the stuff.  We don't look inside the packages."  That
>is a direct quote.  Does anyone else know what is going on here?  I would
>normally not worry about this.  But I have seen references, in this group
>and in some other Apple docs, to pages in older Tech Notes that do not
>exist in my versions.  This makes me wonder if some of the revisions might be
>significant.

All the Tech Notes were revised recently. The revision seems to have been 
to remove certain items from the Tech Notes either irrelevant (bugs in 
earlier systems), unsupported (commentary on the 64K ROMs), or no longer
in Apple's domain (MacWrite internal file format). In most cases, the 
"revision" was basically to say "Dis Tech Note retroactively ain't",
although in slightly better language.

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU