Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <6832@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 17:13:17 GMT
References: <47912@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <47912@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, gaynor@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Vampire) says:

>>Interesting.  My spreadsheet, database and comm program support both clipboard
>>and AREXX. I can fire up my comm program from the database phonebook, 
>>include downloaded data in the spreadsheet or database, while I am editing
>>something else at the same time.

> But that's not standard.  

Why not?  Just because Commodore didn't invent the standard?  That doesn't make
it a non-standard.  I use all kinds of hardware and software standards on my 
Amiga that weren't invented by Commodore.  I use all kinds of standard tools on 
out UNIX machine here that weren't invented by either AT&T or UCB.  

> That's a wonderful feature added on by a few software producers.  It isn't done 
> by everyone.  If I happen to like the interface of a certain program, and it 
> doesn't support those wonderful features - tough.

But on the Mac, all the interfaces are the same, aren't they.  After all, the
user interface is a STANDARD.  And I suppose that every single program of the
same ilk has exactly the same features on the Mac too, right?  Of course it
doesn't.  This is no different; an AREXX interface is an option that any author
can provide.  There's no way it can be forced on anyone, even if Commodore 
bought it from Bill Hawes.  If Apple ever gets a similar standard, there'll be
no way to force everyone to use include such capabilities, except via the
free market.  There seems to be very little new productivity software, except for
some of the video or desktop publishing stuff, that's being released now without
AREXX support.  The market speaks....

> How long have they been promising 1.4?  

They have yet to announce the release date of any operating system followup to
1.3.

> (Hell, I remember hearing promises of 1.4 in Jan 89 last fall).  

I'm sure I can puruse the Apple rumor mill and find someone who'll swear Apple's
promised System 7.0 by some magic data.  I'm equally sure Apple hasn't set such
a magic date themselves.  In all things, consider the source.

> |  Jim Gaynor..."The Vampire Lestat"      UseNet: gaynor@cis.ohio-state.edu  |
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