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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh One-Liners
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Date: 2 Oct 89 02:33:36 GMT
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In-reply-to: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM's message of 2 Oct 89 01:52:44 GMT

In article <33350@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>In article <4492@internal.Apple.COM> cderossi@apple.com writes:
>[ discussion of where to put preference files deleted ]
>>But no matter what, if anything, gets implemented in 
>>System 7.0, you're going to have to deal with a solution for the 6.0.x
>>world, too. And the Preferences folder works nicely.
>
>Is there a hidden message here?  Why are we going to have to deal with
>it for the 6.0.x world?  Isn't System 7 going to be available for
>everyone with >= 2Megs?

Not everybody is going to be upgrading to system 7.  Why?  A few
people will have software which breaks, and not have any reason to
upgrade.  Others just won't bother.  And there will be *plenty* of
people who haven't got enough memory out there!
  I try to code defensively (not assuming the existence of HFS or
WNE), and most of my programs work on system 3.2 and up (that's the
earliest system I have a copy of except for my original at home).
  If you're only writing for people with 2MB of memory and a 20MB hard
drive, you might not have to worry about 6.0.x--but you'll lose a lot
of your potential market, too.
   
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| Anton Rang (grad student)        | rang@cs.wisc.edu |
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