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From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: No Macintalk in system 7? (was Re: Moose and SE/30)
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.222005.9393@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 22:20:05 GMT
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In article <32015@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
>
>As a developer who uses it in a commercial product, I've been a 
>one-man lobbyist for a better Macintalk for years.  About 90% of
>the educational software for the Macintosh uses Macintalk.  Now
>Apple says it wants to promote educational software for the Mac
>-- what better way than to cripple it and have to send it all
>in for a rewrite?  
>
>I know, I know, I've already bought a sound digitizer.  But this means
>that all educational software will require a MacPlus or better and 
>about the only thing a <Plus Macintosh is good for is to give it to
>your kids with some educational software.

>-Owen
>

It's not the end of the world -- remember, no one is saying you HAVE to
upgrade educational Mac systems to use System 7.0  - besides, those pre-
Mac-Plus systems won't be able to run Sys7 anyway, unless they're seriously
souped up with extra RAM and a hard drive.  (For that matter, how many Plus
systems used in the educational field are equipped with 2MB ram?)

Until there is the need to use products that run under System 7.0, and the
ability (2MB RAM, 128k ROMs, hard drive) to use them, I suspect most people
in educational areas will stick with their old Macs and old Systems.
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