Re: System 6.0.1 docs

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

In <lul9i5INNils@libyan.cs.utexas.edu> fredp@cs.utexas.edu (Fred William Peterson) writes:

>I think I heard somewhere that System 6.0.1 will be the final IIGS
>system software upgrade.  If that is true (and please don't flame
>me if it's not), then will Apple be fully documenting the still-
>undocumented bits, like FSTs, etc.?  Releasing the source code?

>I hope Apple will do that, so that the system software can continue
>to be supported, by the users if not by the manufacturer.  It would
>be a shame for it to stay forever stuck in 1993.

I hope not!!

Now, before people have a cow, let me continue: I think Apple should turn
over the source code for the System Software to someone -- NOT NOT NOT to
the public domain or whatever.  They should find a reputable person or
group of people to turn it over to; making it public would lead to utter
chaos and would probably destroy any chances of the IIGS continuing to
have a good system.


>I hope the Apple people are listening and will consider this small
>request.

So do I.

>Fred Peterson (fredp@cs.utexas.edu) a.k.a. "Bjorn Nitmo" 

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