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From: rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 1.0 Documentation?
Summary: Promised delivery date passes, but it's not vaporware?
Keywords: delivery date comes and goes, but not vaporware
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Date: 23 Dec 89 21:01:11 GMT
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In article <246300076@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

[ a question from David Carpenter about 1.0 Tech Doc ship date ]


>...  Personally, I think
>it is pretty poor to release the system before the dox are ready, but I am
>still patient with the company because of their young age and their lack of
>vaporware.  I have not seen them grossly miss a deadline yet.
 ^^^^^^^^^

Not wanting to start another flame war, but doesn't the current
situation count as vaporware?  That is, the product (in this case,
technical documentation) has been promised, but hasn't appeared yet.
True, it's not the end of December yet, but who actually believes
that Next will get the docs shipped with all the holiday hullaballoo?
I too am patient with Next, if only because I want to see 'em squoosh
IBM's butt, but the not-yet-shipping Nextbus chip is beginning to
look like vaporware.  Dare I say that the tech docs are also turning
to vapor before our very eyes?

Bob