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From: hitchings.wbst@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: The demise of Envos
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Date: 27 Apr 89 14:38:00 GMT
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Personally I'm disappointed by Envos's demise for two reasons.  First,
Interlisp-D is one of the best development environments around and it is
finally available on a commercial platform (SUN).  Second,  Xerox has
always had trouble turning PARC research into profitable products and a lot
of us hoped that Xerox's solution for Interlisp-D of spinning off a startup
company would work.  However, it seems that Envos's problem was no cash
flow.  I guess they didn't have any customers.  As for the future, we hope
that Medley will be supported on the SUNs.  However, I doubt you could talk
TI into implementing Interlisp-D on an Explorer rather than enhancing their
own O.S.