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From: cjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Chris Colbourn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: White Knight 11?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 18:12:52 GMT
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Someone told me there was an earlier note on newsgroup about the latest
Red Ryder comms program update but I must have missed it. Anyway, I
received a letter from FreeSoft announcing the update to version 11
and giving a story about the name change to White Knight. The owners of
the Red Ryder trademark (who are they?) apparently wanted a lot more
dosh for its continued use and so FreeSoft decided to change the name
to White Knight 11 (isn't/wasn't that the name of a famous chess
program for the BBC micro and other PCs?)! Anyone know the full story
behind this? Could be that the name will have to change again!!
 
More important perhaps has anyone seen/used White Knight 11? Does it
really live up to its spec.., particularly regarding speed, and
running correctly under MultiFinder. After the fiasco of the last
upgrade from 9.4 to 10.3 which I forked out for and was considerably
disappointed (it was a 'one step forwards, two steps backwards' job in
my opinion), I am loathe to part with money again on spec. alone. It
sounds good but so did Red Ryder 10.3!
--
Chris Colbourn, Psychology Dept, Southampton University, SO9 5NH, UK
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Chris Colbourn, Psychology Dept, Southampton University, SO9 5NH, UK
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