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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 8
Message-ID: <583@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 90 16:30:35 GMT
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Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <17591@well.sf.ca.us> nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport) writes:
>Who says developers complained?  Who says developers even got System 7 yet?
>I want a little attribution here!  

If anyone actually has it they wont be saying, they will be under
non-disclosure

>As far as I can tell, it's slipping because it's complicated.  We're supposed
>to get beta copies at the Developer Conference next week, and I expect that
>the thousands of developers will find yet more bugs and design problems.

Of course ... that's one of the main reasons for shipping betas (lots
of free QA testing - by very expensive programmers). [The other reason
of course is so that applications will work with the new software and
potentially use some of the new features].

	Paul

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