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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!apple!apple!NewsWatcher
  2. From: nerm@apple.com (Dean Yu)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
  4. Subject: Re: System 7.1 : What is going to be in it?
  5. Message-ID: <nerm-200792103739@90.10.20.86>
  6. Date: 20 Jul 92 17:37:54 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul20.020833.578@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <20JUL92.08500391@enh.nist.gov>
  8. Sender: usenet@Apple.COM
  9. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
  10. Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
  11. Lines: 33
  12.  
  13. In article <20JUL92.08500391@enh.nist.gov>, rbriber@enh.nist.gov wrote:
  14. > Paraphrasing from the July 6th issue (p. 65) of PC Week:
  15. > Apple plans to release system 7.1 this fall which should include a number
  16. > of modular system extensions including:
  17. > Open Collaboration Environment:    Apple's new mail interface
  18. > QuickDraw GX:            An improved version of the QuickDraw open print
  19. >                     architecture
  20. > AppleScript:            A system level scripting language
  21. > WordScript:            A technology that will let users configure the 
  22. >                     system for Asian and Middle Eastern
  23. >                     languages.
  24. > "Just the facts, ma'am"
  25. > rob.
  26.  
  27.   This is a pretty liberal paraphrase.  OCE, GX, and AppleScript have
  28. nothing
  29. to do with 7.1, aside from the fact that they all use 7.1 as the base
  30. system.
  31. Other than that, they're all seperate products.
  32.  
  33. -- Dean Yu
  34.    Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
  35.    Apple Computer, Inc.
  36.