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- From: aaron@noproblem.uchicago.edu (Aaron L. Bratcher)
- Subject: Re: What about system 7.2 or 8.0!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.164721.5144@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1993Jan8.004413.14333@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:47:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.004413.14333@wuecl.wustl.edu> gene@wucs1.wustl.edu
- (_Floor_) writes:
- > In article <C0I4Bw.3o3@DMI.USherb.CA> martin@DMI.USherb.CA
- (Jean-francois Martin) writes:
- > ] Now that system 7.1 is out, what's is coming from apple this year and
- > ] years to come? System 7.2, System 8.0? What these systems should be?
- > ] At least, a Font Picker will make its debut in one of these? Something
- > ] else (better help support a la Windows, etc...) What do you think?
- >
- > I wonder as well. After all, Apple says it will be distributing some
- > extensions later in the year to supplement Sys 7.1 that it originally
- > had planned to include in it. So the talk of what would be Sys 8 that
- were
- > started when it was realized Sys 7 was to fall short of expectations
- > seems to be far off in the future. But I'm wondering if Sys 8 will
- > ever be a reality - what about Pink? Taligent makes no claims of the
- > machines on which it will run (or is that makes claims of running on no
- > machines?), but I think we can be rest assured that Macs will be one.
- > I certainly wouldn't expect Apple to put out a rival operating system
- > to Pink if Pink is very popular....but maybe I'm wrong about this point.
- >
-
- I really don't think there will be a "System 8". All the system extensions
- that Apple will be introducing in the near future (OCE, QuickDraw GX,
- etc.) will be just that, system extensions. After Taligent puts out their
- OS, it will probably become the OS of the Mac.
-