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Re: what's different between sys 4.1 and 4.0?

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From: dgold
Date: Mon, 11 May 1987 17:53
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In article <949@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Christopher Chow) writes:
>A few days ago I downloaded System 4.1/Finder 5.5 from Delphi and installed
>onto my Dataframe 20.  Things which I immediatly noticed was the mouse
>tracking on "fast" seemed faster than that on System 4.0 but aside from that
>it appeared that the changes were transparent.
>
>Although I usually do not use MacTerminal 2.0, from time to time I am forced
>to use it because I need to send vt100 keypad codes [when I upgraded to a
>Mac Plus I didn't bother buying the Mac Plus keyboard and junking my old
>keyboard].  Imagine my surprise when I found that System 4.1 breaks
>MacTerminal!

Well, er, ah, hmmm, it seems that there was this low memory global called
BasicGlob, which was reserved for use by the system, and System 4.1 is now
using it (it's been renamed ExpandMem), but, er, uh, ahem, it seems that
MacTerminal (against our own rules), was USING BasicGlob.  So it is
incompatible with System 4.1.

There will be a MacTerminal 2.2 out in the very near future, which will work
with System 4.1 and also properly support the new ADB keyboards (including
the control key).

This just goes to show that even we occasionally break our own rules, and
suffer for it as a result.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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Subject: Re: what's different between sys 4.1 and 4.0?
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:53:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 13:53:45 1987
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