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- From: ygor@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White (F2C))
- Subject: Re: Why HyperCard
- Message-ID: <By0or3.Dsw@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
- References: <1992Nov19.214400.12876@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Nov20.115256.12352@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:42:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.115256.12352@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov19.214400.12876@macc.wisc.edu>, demerit@vms.macc.wisc.edu (J. DeMerit) writes:
- |> > If SuperCard does everything that HyperCard does and does it in color. Then
- |> > why are we using HyperCard???
- |>
- |> I dunno, lots of reasons...one of which is that SuperCard *doesn't* do
- |> everything that HyperCard does.
- |>
- |> Or so I gather (not being a SuperCard user).
- |>
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- One good reason is that Apple now includes a stripped down version of
- HyperCard with the System Software (since 6.0.7. or so , as I recall).
-
- You can RUN just about any stack with it, but you cannot create or modify
- stacks unless you know some magic.
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- Dan White
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- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
- elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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