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From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Lightspeed C 3.0?
Message-ID: <2980@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 20:36:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: ut-emx.2980
References: <104700022@uiucdcsp> <7390009@hpindda.HP.COM>
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In article <7390009@hpindda.HP.COM>, atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) writes:
> >>prediction, it was said the compiler would be ready in April or May (I
> >>think).  Has there been some kind of technical snare-up?
> >
> >	No, not at all. The prediction was (as are most predictions) wrong,
> >that's all.
> >
> >
> >	How does mid-summer sound? Is that perhaps vague enough?
> >
> >		-Rich
> 
> I hate VAPORWARE......
> 
> 			-lee
 
Hmmph.

This reminds me of a story about a consumer protection agency and a
corporation whose computers had gone down due to blizzards one winter.  To
be brief, the irony (idiocy?) was that instead of going after the hundreds
and hundreds of cases of frauds and cheats, it decided to prosecute this
corporation on a technicality, even though the company was doing everything
it could (shipping letters explaining and apologizing about the mess, 
working double-time to fix the problem, etc.) to keep customers happy.

In the same vein, THINK/Symantec is getting flak for something it doesn't
at all deserve.  They are helpful, they have good-quality products, and
even have a friendly rep (unofficial, of course) on the net.  I can't
think of another vendor that does any better.

Vaporware is something announced to be released yet hasn't been.  As far
as I know, THINK has not announced ANYTHING about the new Lightspeeds, and 
for good reason, too, considering the public's view of the now-resolved
FullWrite issue.  This should be very apparent from the hesitation Rich
Siegel puts in his current article, as well as his past USENET articles.
I don't know where you got the release date, possibly some swami, or worse,
in some magazine's rumor column.  Certainly no release dates have come
from THINK.

I guess I may have taken the one-line comment you made rather harshly, but
then again:

I hate VAPORHEADS......

					--chris

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> Lee Atchison
> Hewlett Packard, Business Networks Division
> Cupertino, CA 95014
> atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com

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