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In article <DAVIDL.89Mar15090405@intelob.intel.com> davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) writes:
>Quote without comment:

>"According to Chris Espinoza, advanced technology marketing manager,
>five-year old Macintosh applications software not only still operates
>on the newest Mac system, but also takes advantage of its enhanced
>memory, 68030 processor and large-screen displays.  The Macintosh
>software automatically adjusts applications to the new enchanced Mac
>II environment.

>"As a demonstration, Espinoza took his own copy of Microsoft MultiPlan
>(purchased in spring 1984) and slid it into the new IIcx.  The
>spreadsheet opened to the full megapixel limit of the attached Mac
>page display and allowed full spreadsheet access to the Mac IIcx's 4
>Mbytes of system RAM.

Well, here are *my* comments.  I don't believe this for several
reasons.

	1. The version of Multiplan distributed in 1984 was copy-
	   protected.  I'd be amazed if the copy-protection scheme
	   still worked.

	2. As part of the copy-protection, Multiplan would
	   eject the startup volume (if it wasn't the key), then ask
	   for the key disk in the interal floppy drive.  The
	   stupidity of this became evident when you ran 
	   Multiplan from your hard disk or ramdisk.

	3. If you call MS Tech Support on the telephone and
	   ask them about compatibility, they will tell you
	   that Multiplan works under System 4.1 and earlier.
	   Not 6.0.2.

	4. When I start Multiplan 1.11 on my Mac II by double-
	   clicking a document, I get a bomb 01.  If I open
	   the application first, then the document, I can't
	   enter certain formulas without getting a bomb.

But I'm open-minded.  When I get home tonight, I'll go through my
files and find my oldest Multiplan key disk (circa January 1985).
Maybe it works better than the "current" version.  Or maybe the demo
was rigged...

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