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From: news@amdcad.AMD.COM (Network News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mfinder About Box (Was: Microsoft cuts corners, actually (they do!))
Message-ID: <22733@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 88 00:40:58 GMT
References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com> <11540168@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: hayes@crackle.AMD.COM (Jim Hayes)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA
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dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:

>[...]             Apple's engineers had to keep adding patches to the SYSTEM
>software to ensure that Microsofts code would run! 

Remember the Multifinder about box which was "edited" at the insistence
of Apple's legal department?   

"Special Effects . . . . . XXXXXXXXX"  (Guess which software company
					they meant...)

[Yes, I've seen the unedited list.  No I won't tell.  I can't afford lawyers.]


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