Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!isi.edu!venera.isi.edu!jas From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: May 13th yesterday (was May 13th Today) Message-ID: <17937@venera.isi.edu> Date: 14 May 91 21:05:53 GMT References: <1991May13.173422.25070@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991May13.195023.25353@neon.Stanford.EDU> <52856@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@isi.edu Organization: USC-ISI Lines: 34 In-reply-to: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 14 May 91 20:42:13 GMT In article kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes: >bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: > >>According to someone else, apple.apple.com was getting 5-10 FTP's a >>*MINUTE* looking for the elusive 7.0. > >>(Note: it ain't there, see ftp.apple.com instead. Several of us use >>apple.apple.com for "work purposes" so please don't pig our machine >>too much, OK?) > >Apple brought this upon themselves by not seeing that _every_ dealer >had a copy of the golden master _well before_ the alleged May 13 >release date. How can they start making set of at least 7 disks >without some lead time? We will apparently not have a copy here >until May 15 (at the earliest). > Do you think this would change dealers' willingness to copy disks for users? Also, Apple made their deadline, which is pretty impressive considering that the golden master wasn't finalized until pretty much the last minute. I am also impatiently waiting for System 7, but I don't think it's fair to blame Apple for the fact that not everyone who wants it has it already. They'd like that too, don't you think? jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California