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In article <adtDKMDnB.247@netcom.com>, adt@netcom.com (Anthony D.
Tribelli) wrote:

>Kenneth Jason Fair (kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>: >... If one has to buy
>: >new software to run under copland as did the people upgrading from Win 3.1
>: >to Win95...
>:
>: The answer to this is "no", with the exception of system extensions and
>: control panels.
>:
>: Well, there may be a couple of things that break.  But there always are.
>
>And how is this different from Win95, most DOS and Win 3.1 apps work? Some
>that require special drivers which are no longer compatible don't. Others
>that are ill-behaved don't. Secondly, a new version of an OS provides
>software vendors with a perfect excuse to offer upgrades. 

I wasn't making a comparison between MacOS and the Gates Hegemony.  What I
was saying was that installing Copland won't break everything, as the
previous poster had implied.  But fixing extensions is much easier than
fixing applications the size of Adobe Photoshop, for example.  The vast
majority of programs for the Macintosh don't require any special drivers,
as they rely upon the system software to provide those services.

Of course, developers will use the release of Copland to offer upgrades.
Heck, I'd hope so.  After all, what good is a new OS release that doesn't
offer increased functionality in one way or another?  Not including
maintenance releases, of course.

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