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From: george@swbatl.sbc.com (George Nincehelser 5-6544)
Subject: Re: ** Watchout for the Abaton Interfax **
Message-ID: <1991May1.005715.3439@swbatl.sbc.com>
Organization: Southwestern Bell Advanced Technology Laboratory
References: <1991Apr22.182854.4388@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991Apr25.062500.13237@alias.com> <1991Apr30.232823.29984@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 00:57:15 GMT

In article <1991Apr30.232823.29984@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) writes:
>In <1991Apr25.062500.13237@alias.com> rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis) writes:
>
>
>>Well, let's not pick on *ONLY* Abaton, then.  How about CE Software?
>>Have you tried to get a 32-bit clean version of Quickmail's QuickInit?
>>The reply we got was "it will ship the same time System 7 ships".  I
>>guess that's just their policy too.  Lovely :(.  So now I have to turn
>>off 32-bit mode and reboot just to read mail and then turn 32-bit mode
>>back on and reboot again to do any real work?  Ug.  [I need all 20 Meg of
>>RAM, thank you very much]  Needless to say, I'm not a happy customer.
>
>Well, I happen to agree with CE. I mean REALLY, you expect them to support a
>product not even shipping? It's not their problem that you picked up a beta
>of some operating system which only developers are supposed to have anyway.
>I mean, really, get real!
>
Well, considering Microsoft is now shipping a product that uses the features
of System 7, I'd have to say the "we can't release it till System 7 is
released" excuse is pretty lame.

More than developers have legit copies of System 7.  Major customers have
them, too.

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