Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's Non Disclosure Policy (Was:Re: World War III and HFS FST?)
Message-ID: <36008@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Oct 89 18:19:41 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <6150@portia.Stanford.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	Obviously you're not the policy maker at Apple, but how come 
>they announced System Disk 7.0 for the Mac [although I forget what was
>said about it, I remember it was tremendous improvements.. Which I'd like
>to see in the software for the GSx+turboextended someday!]???
>
>	Now it seems not only do they give more support to the Mac, they
>seem to even forget their OWN INFAMOUS nondisclosure policy...for things
>relating to the Mac only...
>
>--
>unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu

I'll amplify Mark Johnson's comments a bit here.  Not only (as he said) is
7.0 not announced, but IIgs System Software 5.0 *was* announced, about three
months before it shipped.  No one seems to want to remember that.


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