Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!clover.cis.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@clover.cis.ohio-state.edu (Vampire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0 Message-ID: <47846@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 May 89 19:31:58 GMT References: <17148@usc.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Vampire Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 32 In article <17148@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: > >This is quoted from the May 10th, 1989 issue of the Wall Street Journal: > [information about Macintosh System 7.0 coming "real soon now"] > >Interesting. I have been using a system with such features, an Amiga, since >1985. > >-- Marco Papa 'Doc' The feature you think you're talking about is what Apple is calling "Live Cut/Paste" (as opposed to the original "Clipboard Cut/Paste"). This allows a user to take something like a chart, graphic, spreadsheet, or word processing document, paste it into another document (even another document in another application) and have an subsequent changes in the original automatically show up in the copy that is in the other document. I think this is a far cry from what the Amiga is doing right now. Hell, it STILL doesn't have a standardized clipboard for cut/past, something Apple had from day one. Correction: Amiga has a clipboard, it's just that there exist few applications that implement it. Same difference, I can't cut/paste easily from one doc to another. There's a bunch of other nice features in Mac System 7.0 - if anyone really wants to hear 'em, I'll send you (or post) the file I got from comp.sys.mac. For those of us who keep up with both worlds... -=- | Jim Gaynor..."The Vampire Lestat" UseNet: gaynor@cis.ohio-state.edu | | The Ohio State University - Dept. of Philosophy, Dept. of Computer Science | >> "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It'd be a pity << >> to damage yours." -The Dread Pirate Roberts, "The Princess Bride" <<