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- From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
- Subject: Re: CSMP One-liners (Request for updates)
- In-Reply-To: ldo@waikato.ac.nz's message of 21 Jan 93 17:25:17 +1300
- Message-ID: <NEERI.93Jan22002819@iis.ethz.ch>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich
- References: <mxmora-120193101003@css-mac1.sri.com>
- <1993Jan14.174448.25614@kth.se>
- <1993Jan18.043421.3018@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- <1993Jan18.140502.17994@kth.se> <1993Jan21.172517.13363@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:28:19 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1993Jan21.172517.13363@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan18.140502.17994@kth.se>, d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte) writes:
- >>
- >>>>Also: The HXXX calls are available from System 3 and up.
- >>
- >>>I thought it was 3.2 or 3.3 where HFS showed up? Perhaps my memory is
- >>
- >> 3.2, I think.
-
- > It was 3.0 (the first system released to support the Mac Plus). However,
- > the system didn't actually have HFS in it, since that was built into the
- > Mac Plus ROM.
-
- > 3.2 was just the first version of 3.x that was worth using. :-)
-
- Agreed. 3.0 had a reputation of erasing any file that got in its way.
- Maybe we should add a one-liner:
-
- Don't bother supporting System 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, or 6.0
-
- (Which doesn't mean that none of the other versions were unreliable, but
- I think the above gang of four were the real releases from hell).
-
- Matthias
-
- -----
- Matthias Neeracher neeri@iis.ethz.ch
- "Macintosh System 7.1 -- just say no. If I'd wanted to pay for OS
- upgrades, I'd have bought an IBM." -- mathew@mantis.co.uk
-