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From: dave@diddley.ccs.cc.umich.edu (Dave Koziol)
Subject: Re: System 8
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Keywords: MS Word & System 8.0
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Date: Thu, 3 May 90 20:09:19 GMT

In article <54317@microsoft.UUCP> t-allenb@microsoft.UUCP (Allen BRIGGS) writes:
>I'm not speaking for Microsoft on this in any way, but MS Word 4.0
>runs fine on my A/UX 1.1 system at home, and if it runs in that
>environ, it should (IMHO) run on any MacOS system that Apple can
>throw out in the next few years (if any ship in that timeframe).
>I can see it now, System 6.0.6, 6.0.7,...
>
>-allen briggs
>	(...!{uunet,uw-beaver}!microsoft!t-allenb)

I can't resist this one.  Gee, if Word 4.0 was such a well behavied
application then why would Microsoft need to release a 4.0a, and gee,
what about a 4.0b?  (Anybody want to take bets on whether or not there
will be a 4.0c?) (Did someone say Mac IIci compatability? among other fixes)
 
Every year at MacHack, we've been using Microsoft products as a test of
INITs, cdevs, patches, and other good stuff.  Every year we find some 
interesting neat feature (read BUG!) in a Microsoft application.

It's a real shame Microsoft isn't willing to let any of their programmers
come to MacHack.  (That's the Macintosh Technical Developers Conference
for you suits out there...)

Dave Koziol                     | Internet: dave@ccs.cc.umich.edu
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