Template talk:System 6

The 6.0.8 stuff needs more work; I've got the documentation, but not a good way to present it. The summary goes like this: 6.0.7 was the base for international translations; some of them were completed before 6.0.8 was released with the System 7 printing fix added, some of them came after, and the International English version followed up almost a year later with 6.0.8.1, which appears to just be 6.0.8, with the 'o's replaced with 'ou's -- I can't see any other difference.

Then in the middle of this, we've got Arabic/Hebrew being released in October '91 as System 6.1 -- and yet they're not based on 6.0.8; they're based on 6.0.7 with the text localizations changed in some, but not all, places. They use the 6.0.7 Finder and many of the other 6.0.7 components, with a rewritten System that includes right-to-left text handling, but seems otherwise virtually identical to both 6.0.7 and 6.0.8. Adespoton (talk) 4:05, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, I completely agree. I had to open up the disk images to find out more because these builds were so scantly documented. I do remember the need for the printing fix -- I imagine hardly anyone remembers when the old LaserWriters needed to redownload software when connecting to older Macs with mismatched printer driver versions. The process was excruciatingly slow over LocalTalk when all parts involved were running on 68k processors. System 6.0.8L and 6.1 appear to be stopgap measures to continue double-byte international support because WorldScript wasn't ready until 7.1. —Pippinitis (talk) 13:29, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I checked and 6.1 appears to contain updated printer drivers like 6.0.8. The numbering is confusing and interesting (some were version 7.0.0.1). —Pippinitis (talk) 14:48, 1 May 2021 (UTC)