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From: omh@brunix (Owen M. Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DTS and Compatibility (Was: MF)
Summary: Why they do the things they do...
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Date: 15 Apr 89 04:19:52 GMT
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If you read MacWeek's Mac The Knife, he claims that System 7.0 will be
announced at Apple's (pay us $900 and we'll tell you why you should
program the Mac) Developer's conference.

Although MTK's column is usually merely corroborative evidence intending
to give verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative,
(you can't believe how much fun it is to type in Poo-Bah's line!) he
spouts that System 7.0 will have "a new font outline technology to
put Quickdraw on parity with PostScript," also virtual memory, IPC, 
a new printer driver architecture
and dragging of fonts and resources just like Servant did.

He claims that a ROM upgrade is in order (you knew this would happen! Can
you say "ROM simms?")

This makes sense to me, although not all may be true, probably most of it is.
Apple announced the MacPlus at the last Dev Conf I went to (1986, only
$300, I think.  What a bargain!)  and is probably planning to do this.

Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET