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From: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Elm and other mailers for Apollos
Message-ID: <43657eac.1b147@apollo.COM>
Date: 23 May 89 16:54:00 GMT
References: <43290411.f81c@gtephx.UUCP> <1274@novavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1274@novavax.UUCP> weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes:
>Unfortunately, Apollo currently does not distribute either smail or GNU
>Emacs, though they could if they cared enough to support better
>interactive environments and communication interfaces.  (HP probably
>will distribute at least GNU code sometime in the future.)

Apollo's policy has always been, right or wrong, not to ship things that
we don't have the resources to support.  We are fully aware that there are
*lots* of utilities, tools, etc. that we should ship and support.  But
we can't do them all, so the best we can do is make them available via
ADUS for those people who are willing to work with unsupported software.

						-kee
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