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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Mac Rumours
Message-ID: <1998@pur-phy>
Date: 23 Feb 89 15:10:48 GMT
References: <1975@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
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Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <1975@tank.uchicago.edu> ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
<In article <41a2364a.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>, billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) writes...
<<[...]
<<because you will need all new applications to run under the new system.  
<<[...]

<_All_ new applications?  Unless they're running on a different type of CPU,
<why?

Mac programs make Toolbox calls.  If the whole shebang is redone, the
Toolbox will be scrapped.  I believe that the ROMs will be completely
rewritten, not just the System file.  At least that's the impression
I get.  People are talking Object Oriented, etc., and it's getting
harder and harder to tell truth from rumor, but I think the change is
going to be more drastic than rewriting the System file from scratch
to improve, since that won't change the functionality of the Mac much.

Of course they could call it the Mac III and have a Mac II compatibility
mode (gawd.).

-Sho