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From: welch@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Arun Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: RIP
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Date: 13 Apr 89 19:39:39 GMT
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Folks, sit down while you're reading this... 

Envos closed their doors for business on monday, at 5pm PDT.  We're
really sorry to see them go, they had a lot to offer the Lisp
community.  Unfortunately, that's all the detail I can go into.  They
*are* working on a plan to continue support, so calling them or your
sales rep right now will be pretty fruitless, as the plan hasn't
finalised yet.  For now, if you've got bugs/questions that you'd send
to AISupport, your best bet is probably to send them to this list, or
if you feel that it's an embarassingly trivial thing that "everyone"
probably knows, send them to me and I'll either answer them or forward
to the list anonymously. Carl Gadener will be on the 800 support line
until things finalize too, but please call him for genuine bugs/help
rather than to get the state/story on Envos, since that could tie up
the line for someone with a genuine problem.  John Sybalsky has
committed to providing him all the development help he needs to keep
people running, too.

 As I find out more on what the continued support will be, I'll keep
the list informed.

I really wish they'd made it.  It'll be a poorer lisp environments
market for the lack of them.


...arun


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Arun Welch
Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
welch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu     (614) 292-0352