Re: System 5.04 dead?

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <1993Apr26.140118.42833@urz.unibas.ch> hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>I just got my copy of 'Programmer's System 6 Reference' and it's
>really a neat thing! Therefore I decided to use any System 6 call
>where appropriate in my CHEMIX project, making it incompatible
>with System 5.04. (I think, it doesn't pay to write special case
>code).
>Although the decision is made now, I wonder whether there is
>still anybody using System 5.04 (or earlier), and why.

There are many reasons for staying with 5.04 . (1) It uses less memory.
(2) The boot disk is smaller from a 3.5" floppy. (3) Many sw companies
stopped supporting the GS at 5.04. In fact, I don't believe there were any
new GS's sold with System 6.0, at least not in Canada. When I bought a new
one a while ago it came with 5.04 .
 
I would think you'd be limiting your audience greatly by not supporting
5.04 . Clearly, System6.0 is far nicer. But its audience is probably far
smaller.

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Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
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