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>        1) A system enabler is part of the system software.  It is associated
>        with a particular machine, so I already have all the "enablers" for
>        the IIvx from the simple fact that I have system software installed
>        on it.

Enablers are patches for newer machines to run already-released software.
From what I've heard, you need one for a different reason: bug fix.

>        2) There aren't any separate system enablers.  You get the ones that
>        come with the system software, und das ist alles.

There will be new enablers for new machines, and perhaps more bug fixes.

>        3) There are no official problems with MIDI and the IIvx, although
>        Apple may be "looking into it".

There probably aren't any *official* problems. It's the unofficial ones
that important. The only thing Apple reliably look into is their collective
navel.

>        4) I should, in the future, not pay any attention to the rampant Mac
>        Misinformation on "bulletin boards" (what's he calling a bulletin
>        board?  Macweek?  The internet?  Who ^is^ this guy?).

Someone who doesn't seem to know much about what he's talking about, from
your account. Hell, if he did, he wouldn't be chained to a phone.

                      Nick Rothwell  |  "Say, how many contemporary dancers
   CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance  |     are there in this bar?"
        cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk  |  "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
        cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk  |     and divide by two..."