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- From: nerm@apple.com (Dean Yu)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: System Enablers, What Are They?
- Message-ID: <nerm-120193103151@90.10.20.86>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:35:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.024300.24218@netcom.com> <1993Jan12.152840.27057@tdb.uu.se>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1993Jan12.152840.27057@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) wrote:
- >
- > Starting with system 7.1, Apple will not make a new system version for every
- > new Macintosh model. Instead, they all use the same system version, and the
- > new models add an extension called a system enabler. The problem is that the
- > installation disks now have to be different. There's a separate install boot
- > disk for the IIvi/IIvx, one for PB 160/180, one for PB Duo 210/230, and one
- > for all the rest.
- >
- > I'm not sure on this, but I think a system enabler can do bad things if it's
- > used on the wrong model. This is probably the reason why an install for all
- > macs doesn't install all the enablers.
- >
-
- A system enabler is only active on the machine(s) it was designed for.
- It's totally harmless on other machines. It is possible to make a boot
- disk that contains enablers for several machines. Provided of course,
- there's enough space on the disk...
-
- > In the future, Apple will also distribute enablers that extend the system.
- > The new AppleScript, QuickDraw GX and electronic mail will probably all
- > be system enablers.
-
- Actually, we probably won't. The enabler mechanism was intended to make
- new machines work...
-
- -- Dean Yu
- Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-