🚀 go-pugleaf

A bunch o'programs are now "broken" under System 6.0.  Among them: most Micrsoft
products & ACIUS's 4th Dimension.   (*)This time it seems to be the developer's
fault.  Most of the programs that break seem to violate Robot's Rules of Order
regarding Handles.  I.e., they manipulate the upper handle bits directly 
or are doing silly things like using fake handles.  I was using 6.0 for a while
'til I found 4D broken.. and I have to use it, so I'll wait the 3-4 weeks for
ACIUS to deliver a promised patch.

Microsoft products die because in their _infinite_ wisdom, Micrsoft hardwired
their products for 1Mb machines.   A pretty hard thing to do on a 68000 which
has no segment registers and a linear address space,... no?  
Apple seems to have gotten smart and decided not to keep kludging the system 
to move Microsoft programs around in memory... if MicroSoft can't get their 
act together and fix it in a timely fashion,... Oh, well.  I'll know not to 
buy any more MS products.

			David

(*)
  I don't mean to say that software that stops working under new system 
software releases is _ever_ Apple's "fault", but usually when things break
its due to increased functionality in the OS that programs can't handle
(e.g., HFS), this time it seems to be Apple enforcing its own rules.  
(software compatibility guidelines..)

This is probably a warm-up for what's gonna happen when 7.0 comes out.
Looks like time to read TechNote 117 again to make sure I didn't miss nuthin'!


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