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From: parent@apple.com (Sean Parent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Q & A
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Date: 15 May 89 21:26:33 GMT
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In article <7267@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
> Which is great, of course.  My only concern is, are you saying that
> existing printer drivers will break under System 7.0?  There are some
> fifty-plus products using nonstandard printer drivers on the market at
> present, and more in the pipeline (including my current client's
> product).

All existing printing drivers will stop working under 7.0. You will not 
even be able to choose these devices in the new chooser. We are working 
hard to ensure that most 3rd party drivers are revved to the new 
architecture either before or shortly after we ship 7.0. Under the new 
architecture developing a driver is much simpler (yes, the in-house record 
is 30min). One of the resons for this is that an old driver would not be 
able to handle a call from a new application using the new call set. There 
is a compatibility box layered onto the new drivers so that exsiting 
applications can talk to them.

Sean Parent
PrintShop Engineer

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