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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: 32-bit Quickdraw INIT?
- In-Reply-To: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu's message of 3 Sep 92 21:57:08 EST
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:56:28 GMT
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- temple> == temple <temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>
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- temple> While installable as an INIT under system 6 (beginning with
- temple> 6.0.3?), 32-bit QuickDraw is built into system 7. The INIT is
- temple> not required if you are running system 7.
-
- It also is unnecessary on the IIci and newer machines, as they have
- 32-bit QuickDraw in ROM (unless of course they're non-Color QuickDraw
- machines).
-
- This broke a number of ill-behaved programs (mostly games) when the IIci
- came out, since you couldn't just drag 32-bit QD out of the System
- Folder anymore ;-)
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