Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!sunfs3!kent From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager) Message-ID: <512@sunfs3.camex.uucp> Date: 25 Sep 89 17:36:40 GMT References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <459@amanue.UUCP> <1197@adobe.UUCP> <752@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> <1205@adobe.UUCP> <1207@adobe.UUCP> <1989Sep16.030547.10105@NCoast.ORG> <507@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <20020@usc.edu> <20029@usc.edu> Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 25 In article <20029@usc.edu> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes: ... >expanding the power of the currently installed Pluses and SEs. There >is nothing illegal or even immoral about that. But people can no >longer count on new things coming out for the old machines. That is >what makes people unhappy. You are forgetting the technical facts. Pluses and SEs are still supported. Color QuickDraw and gigantic memory maps are the only things that lock them out of using some programs, the rest work great. As for things coming out for `old' machines, look at Apple's newest offerings. The Macintosh Portable is also lacking Color QuickDraw and a big memory map. Any well written software which will run on the Portable will still run on my Plus. Do you really think publishers are going to write-off the Portable and all those Pluses and SEs? Not quite yet. My bottom-of-the-line Plus will run the same programs as the sexiest Macintosh out there. -- Kent Borg "This and being born are the 2 damndest kent@lloyd.uucp things that ever happened to me." or -Resident of McClellenville, SC, ...!husc6!lloyd!kent referring to Hurricane Hugo (from NPR)