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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Where O Where IS 0.9?
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Date: 5 May 89 13:36:05 GMT
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In article <8956@polya.Stanford.EDU> aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:
>...
>Take a look at the Draw & Icon programs in /NextDeveloper/Demos in 0.9: They
>...
>BTW, 0.9 includes TeX and Metafont. Fonts are generated on the fly as
>...

0.9 sounds really nice.  Too bad we don't have it.  The last lie I
was told said it would ("Positively, I got off the phone
two minutes ago and they said it was shipping") be HERE April 28th.
And before that, it was "We're shipping it April 10th, for sure."
And before that, it was "By the end of March."
And before that, it was "Middle to late March."

My calendar says it's May; I don't know about anyone else's.

What I find even more annoying is I don't hear a word about dates slipping
until they come up with the next phantom ship date.  They already have
an electronic newsletter that goes to campus support personnel; I fail to
see why they can't use that to 'fess up when they aren't shipping (again).

I've heard it said on occasion, "But we don't want to ship a bad product,
like <insert-your-favorite-company-here>."  That's all well and good;
but then cut out the "It's going to be here for sure" garbage.  There are
some development projects I began putting off in early March because I
thought .9 was just around the corner.  If I'd known then that I was going
to wait (at least) TWO MORE MONTHS, I would have struggled on doing dev-
elopment under 0.8.

And raise your electronic hands if you believe you'll see 1.0 in June,
as promised.  Welcome to the real world, I guess.

[I would be more than happy to have .9 arrive moments after I post this,
so I would look stupid.  I fear it isn't going to be so.]
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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