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From: rca@tahoe.cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Alpha version of SAS for the NeXT shown at SUGI 15
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Date: 14 Apr 90 02:55:08 GMT
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In article <19029@oregon.uoregon.edu>, JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:

|>I'm not sure this is really fair -- SAS has clearly already put a LOT of time
|>into this product. Remember, porting the SAS System to a new platform isn't 
|>exactly like porting 200 lines of vanilla C...

I refered in my b.....it statement to the comment someone made that they will
put it only on the market if the NeXT has proven to be successful first.
At least that is what I got out of some of the postings. 
Otherwise I really welcome that they port this product and I certainly am 
interested in it.

Ronald
                                           
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