Editing System 7 (section)

===System 7.1===
In August 1992, the 7.1 update was released.  This is the first version of the system software that Apple charged money for.  Of this change, [[David Pogue]] wrote:<ref name="system-software-museum">{{Cite book |last=Pogue |first=David |author-link=David Pogue |url=http://www.toddp.com/classic/Software%20Install/Apple%20Support%20Documents/Macintosh%20Secrets/Mac%20Secrets%204th%20ed./ch06.pdf |title=MacWorld Macintosh Secrets 4th edition - Chapter 6: The System Software Museum |date=January 1997 |access-date=October 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017214028/http://www.toddp.com/classic/Software%20Install/Apple%20Support%20Documents/Macintosh%20Secrets/Mac%20Secrets%204th%20ed./ch06.pdf |archive-date=October 17, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|225}}

{{blockquote|text=System 7.1 was remarkable for another reason, too: It was the first system software update Apple didn't give away. You had to buy it, much to the fury of user groups and online services that had gotten used to making each new system release available to everybody. Backing down in the face of the protests, Apple eventually offered the System 7.1 upgrade kit to user-group and online service members for less than $30. But the writing was on the wall: Apple was jealous of Microsoft, a system-software superstore to the world. Many wondered if the upgrade was even worth it. System 7.1 incorporated a huge number of changes, but the vast majority were deep-seated, core-level rewrites that added no usefulness to standard American Mac users.|author=David Pogue|title=''MacWorld'' ''Macintosh Secrets'', 4th edition}}

New to 7.1 is the Fonts folder.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Howard Bear |first=Jacci |date=November 19, 2018 |title=Here's How to Find Font Files on Macs or in Windows |url=https://www.lifewire.com/locate-font-files-1074150 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425201608/https://www.lifewire.com/locate-font-files-1074150 |archive-date=April 25, 2019 |access-date=April 25, 2019 |website=Lifewire |language=en |quote=The default location for all System fonts in System 7.1 and later is the Fonts folder inside the System folder.}}</ref> This replaced the often time-consuming method of dragging fonts to and from the System file, introduced in System 7.0; it also replaced the [[Font/DA Mover]] application from System 6, which could also be used with 7.0. System 7.1 also included a lot of internal changes to support the internationalization of dates, times, and numbers.  It was also the first version to support "Enablers", which removed the requirement to release a new version of the system software every time new hardware was released.

A set of specialized versions of 7.1, ranging from 7.1P1 to 7.1P6 (excluding 7.1P4) were created and included with various [[Macintosh Performa|Performa]] models that were already available or were released after 7.1.  These specialized versions included [[At Ease]], Launcher, and some other changes that were integrated into later versions of the system software.

The first major upgrade was System 7.1.1, also known as "System 7 Pro". This release was a bundle of 7.1 with AppleScript tools, [[QuickTime]] and [[Apple Open Collaboration Environment]] (AOCE). While System 7 had some trouble running on slightly older machines due to its memory footprint, System 7 Pro barely fit into any Macintosh computers of the time. It was most commonly used for its minor bug fixes rather than its new functionality.

Apple co-founded the [[AIM alliance]] (Apple, IBM, and Motorola) in 1992, shortly after the release of System 7 in 1991, and started developing [[PowerPC]]-based machines that later became the [[Power Macintosh]] family. Support for these machines resulted in System 7.1.2.

System 7.1.2 was never offered for retail sale; it shipped with the first batches of the PowerPC Macs and a 68k version shipped with a small number of Quadra 600 series systems. Later shipments shipped with System 7.5 instead.

System 7.1.2P was the same as 7.1.2 and shipped with the [[Macintosh Quadra 630|Performa 630, LC 630, and Quadra 630]] models that were released between July and November 1994.