A plug-in software architecture that lets you extend the usefulness of your applications by easily adding new functionality. Uses software components--called parts--that can be dragged-and-dropped into documents created by any OpenDoc-aware application. You can combine parts from different Mac OS software developers to add tables, graphs, outlines, and even live Internet resources into your documents. Since OpenDoc is a cross-platform technology, documents created with OpenDoc can work across different computer platforms, including Mac OS, Windows, UNIX, and OS/2. OpenDoc 1.2.1 includes all the improvements in OpenDoc 1.2, as well as support for Mac OS 8.0. OpenDoc(TM) Version 1.2 and OpenDoc(TM) 1.2.1 were released on September 12, 1997. OpenDoc 1.2 requires a Macintosh with 68030 or greater with US Mac OS version 7.1.1 or later, or a Power Macintosh with US Mac OS version 7.1.2 or later and at least 8MB of memory. OpenDoc 1.2.1 should be used with US Mac OS 8.0 or later. English-North American Mac OS 8.0 or later