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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CBM's "blessing"
Message-ID: <7226@well.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 10:18:41 GMT
References: <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Loudmouth Software, Inc.
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Quote: "Nancy, I've had it up to my kiester with this thing."  -- R. Reagan

In article <7239@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
>How "standard" will 1.3 be when it's
>released?  What about 6 or 12 months after release?  It took a long
>while for many A1000 owners to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2, and that was
>as simple as copying a disk.  Think about all those A500 owners (much
>more than there were A1000 owners) who will need to go to the trouble
>of a ROM change for the upgrade to 1.3.  You're fooling yourself if
>you think its gonna happen overnite.  And you're fooling yourself
>even more if you write a program for mass consumption that uses a
>1.3 (or 1.2 incompatible) function for marketing in the short to
>medium future.
>
	As you know, 1.3 KickStart is functionally identical to 1.2
KickStart, with the exception of the autoboot code.  1.3 is primarily a
WorkBench distribution, so it's as simple as copying a disk, or buying the
enhancer package.

	DPaint ][ required 1.2 to function, and was released about the same
time 1.2 came out.  This didn't stop users from buying DPaint ][ and
upgrading to 1.2.

	Enlighten me:  How does Apple upgrade its Mac OS?

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