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From: jla@LUCID.COM (Joseph Arceneaux)
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Date: 22 Mar 91 00:58:37 GMT
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Things which have delayed version 19 include changes in personnel,
leaves of abscence, the Unipress threats, and an iterative process of
trying and then throwing out some features.  Feedback from Epoch users
was involved in this last, and has, positively I believe, influenced
aspects of version 19.

The 1988 message about release in "6 to 9 months" was long before I
began work on 19, so such an early version would have been missing
some features that many users would like, such as working under X11.

It is certainly regrettable to have made any promises about release
dates, and as far as I am concerned I can only attribute this to my
weakness before severe insistence from various groups of users.
Rather than make such an error again, I will go back to work.