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Article #10221Re: no 6.0.4 upgarde path
From: Jeffrey Kuskin
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 20:53
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 20:53
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In article <3683@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier) writes: >From article <2661@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>, by kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan): >> [quoting APDAlog:] "...there is no need to upgrade to >> Macintosh System Software v. 6.0.4" and that system 6.0.2 or system 6.0.3 is >> sufficient. (page C-48 of the APDALog, right hand column) > >Ah yes, but as has been prodigiously pointed out to me in tons of hate mail, >you need System 6.0.4 to run HyperCard 1.2.5 because of Sound Manager >enhancements. "Would Apple be so stupid as to release software that required >an unstable OS version?" one MacFanatic asked. The answer is left as an >exercise for the reader. I just purchased a IIcx (not a IIci) and it came with 6.0.4 and Hypercard 1.2.5, so it would seem that either Apple put the wrong software in the box (unlikely), or that, although you don't *have* to use 6.0.4 on anything but a IIci or Portable, there is no particular reason not to upgrade. -- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!jskuskin From: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: no 6.0.4 upgarde path Message-ID: <18728@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 22 Jan 90 20:53:36 GMT References: <2661@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <3683@hub.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 20