Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!grian!alex From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Norton Utilities Message-ID: <1990Aug2.070132.4741@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> Date: 2 Aug 90 07:01:32 GMT References: <5510@mnetor.UUCP> <1990Jul16.234631.29803@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <11119@chaph.usc.edu> Organization: Workman & Associates Lines: 33 wilber@nunki.usc.edu (John Wilber) writes: >In article rk39+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Joseph Kuszewski) writes: >I really should set the record straight here. Now that all of the products >have been released, I can spill the beans. I work for Peter Norton, so this >is really the straight story. >This is also completely untrue. The fact is that Symantec DID change the >package design we had originally planned (though only a little bit), but this >had no effect on the release of the DOS utilities whatsoever. In fact 5.0 >went out the door like clockwork, just as we had planned. No big delays, no >problems. It's pretty unusual for a major software project huh? Oh, yeah, and the Norton Utilities for System V is out, too. (That's not a "true" Norton product, but it's got Peter's name all over it.) Three products in the last month. Not bad, hey? And I have had independent sightings of NUM from back East, so no-one can complain that it's a "vapor product". I'm quite proud of my contributions to Norton's products. I helped (he said, with characteristic modesty) with beta-ing and bug-stomping. You will like the product, if you want any of the parts it has. Alex -- Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3