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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 8 Nov 90 06:31:43 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.053938.16341@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
>
>If Lotus had tried to develop Improv on Windows 3.0, it may well have taken
>till 1992 to come out with a version of Improv for any machine. 
>
I heard from a NeXT rep (hardly a disinterested party) that Lotus had
tried for many moons to do Improv on OS/2 PM.  They were unsuccessful.
They finally punted on it and moved to the NeXT, where they got it going
with comparative ease.  

Don McGregor               
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu