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From: dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple ][+ Support
Summary: The keywords are STANDARD and ALL
Message-ID: <10489@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 89 21:44:22 GMT
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In article <48000002@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu>, jb211@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> /* Written 12:30 pm  Feb 20, 1989 by trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu in uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.apple */
> ]['s or "Black Apples" by Bell & Howell) are still APPLE USERS. Software
> should accomodate as many Apple users as is reasonable.
> Todd Davis
> 
>      "As is reasonable".  Supporting a 10 yr old machine is not what I call
> "reasonable".  One is forced either to limit what the version for new machines
> does, or to make a totally separate version for old ones.
> jawaid bazyar

I think you left the key point out of your reply.  Shrinkit is striving to     
become the new compaction standard in the APPLE II arena.  There are still some
people out there with Apple II's, II+'s, unenhanced //e's, Franklin Ace 1000's,
1200's, etc...  When a program is striving to become a standard, it is hard
to do so if it doesn't support all the STANDARD machines in it's genre.  DDD
Deluxe works fine on all machines, so it for the most part is the standard.
BLU is another standard because non //e/c/gs users can use Elton's Squeeze
and archiving programs to do the job.  I think that is the main reason 
Shrinkit has not caught on around some of the local bbs's I'm on is because a 
lot of people only have II's, and keep asking people with enhanced computers
to D/L something then unpack it, re-pack it with DDD Deluxe and re-upload
it.  FACTS jawaid!

Later - Dan Vachon -    !ucbvax!ihnp4!drutx!dvac