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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: They're shipping.
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Date: 21 Nov 90 15:55:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: osborn@cs.utexas.edu's message of 21 Nov 90 05:40:34 GMT

In article <14917@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
   My suspicion (that NeXT would continue to work on 2.0 until the
   last minute before the hardware was ready) was, I believe, correct.
   Having to wait for hardware isn't fun, but we'll probably get a
   significantly more stable software release because of the delay.

Another interpretation would be that they've had all that extra time
to introduce fresh new bugs, without wasting time on regression
testing at the last minute.

(Actually, the software release was probably frozen some time ago, to
allow for production lags at the OD presser, the doc printer, etc.)