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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWrite II contains a hypercard engine!
Summary: Symmetry's HyperEngine
Message-ID: <11286@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 18:37:12 GMT
References: <667@cf-cm.UUCP>
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In article <667@cf-cm.UUCP>, ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>[discovery the MacWrite II's help file is a Hypercard Stack]
>[It also contains HENG (Hypercard Engine?) resources]
> 
> Does this mean 
> (1) Claris were expecting everyone to be able to run MWII and Hypercard
> simultaneously when they originally developed the help
> (2) Parts of hypercard will REALLY become systems software for other a
> applications to call on
> (3) Add your own wild speculations here!

	What is means is that Claris licensed Symmetry Corps's HyperEngine
which is a library that developers can purchase so that they can have access
to stacks in their applications.  It is the same technology use in Symmetry's
HyperDA and as such has the same limitations (no XCMD's, etc.)
	Whether HC will be come part of the system software is pretty clear,
I believe that a high-ranking Apple employee was quoted in a recent MacWeek
as saying that Hypercard/talk will play a MAJOR role in interApplication
communication on the Mac and as such will bcecome part of the O.S.

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