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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
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In article <20029@usc.edu> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes:
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>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.

-- 
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