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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0
Message-ID: <6237@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 17:03:25 GMT
References: <780@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <780@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com
(Norman Goodger) writes:
>The speed problems that 10.3 has when used with slews of INIT's are gone
>in 11.0. RR11 is significantly faster in all areas over 10.3. 

Sorry Norm, but I must disagree with you.  I don't swallow the story
of INIT's having such a devistating effect on transfer rates.. I tried
using 10.3 with no init's and with all my INIT's and noticed no difference!

>However I don't have a clue as to what you mean by your last statement
>about Zterm, Scott does not rely on anyone elses programming to do his work.
>When RR11 comes out in the next couple months, there will be no problems
>with speed.
>
>-- 
>Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
>3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
>Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
>UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg  Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM

I think one point with Red that is being over looked here, are the people,
like myself that upgraded to 10.3 with the promise of a fully intergrated
Mac interface, I believe the quote went something like "Icons, dialogs...
the whole ball of Mac wax"!.. well frankly Scott Watson did not deliver,
and well over a year later he has still failed to deliver!  Appart from the
restructuring of a few menu items, the upgrade from 9.x to 10.3 was trivial!

I think that this is discraceful conduct for a "commercial" product, and my
feeling on the matter is that if version 11 is what Scott promised for
version 10, then there are a lot of users like myself that should be given
free updates.

It really is a situation of "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame
on me".. I'm not going to bite twice, thanks!

Stu.

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