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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Apple's [in]famous system 7.0 for the Macintosh
Keywords: announcement of intent to announce
Message-ID: <1626@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 14:26:36 GMT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Apple's hyperbole re: System 7.0 is a quite useful stategy that
Sculley has essentially learned from IBM.  Basically the current
flurry of press releases regarding System 7.0 are essentially
announcemnts that Apple intends to at some future as yet
unspicified date announce System 7.0.  This remimds one of the
protracted labor pains surrounding the IBM PS/2 equipment.

System 7.0 t'aint goin ta be no panacea anyway.  According to a
blurb in this week's Infoworld magazine,

	"The driver tookit will let printer OEMs and software
	developers use the operating system's device-independent
	Quickdraw graphics engine to prepare page bit maps for
	printers.

	Driver developers will only need to write a chooser-level
	user interface and a hardware interface that deals with
	printer-specific communication."

Translating:  In other words, it is the same old thing.  We all
know how easy it is to write "a hardware interface that deals with
printer-specific communication".  I guess I ought to be able to
knock that off with about ten minutes of coding :-).  Like
translating a quickdraw raster to HP-PCL, for instance.  At least
they are planning to give us hooks to do it right this time.

According to PC Week, developers have the System 7.0 specification
now, with beta releases of the O/S expected to be delivered in the
third quarter of 1989.  One might see 7.0 on dealer shelves by
early 1990 if there are no big snags.

Guaging from 6.0 and 6.1, I don't think it would be timely advice
to start holding one's breath yet.  At this august institution, we
are none the less eagerly awaiting the arrival of 7.0.  32-bit
quickdraw will be nice.

Bill
wtm@impulse.UUCP