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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Whirled and WB 1.4
Message-ID: <10091@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Mar 90 03:59:07 GMT
References: <1565@corpane.UUCP> <90067.143001UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
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In article <90067.143001UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
writes:
>In article <1565@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) says:
>>
>>A friend told me that Amiga World has claimed that CBM has decided to call
>>the new release of Workbench: WB 2.0 instead of WB 1.4
>
>I think they should call it WB 90 or some such.  In these days of version
>number inflation, eg, Dbase IV, Unix SV, Windows 386, and so on, the Amiga
>is in danger of falling too far behind if it calls it 1.4.

I think we should call it System 7.0 instead, that way we compete with Apple's
new OS release. And Workbench should be renamed "Intuition Presentation
Manager", that way we compete with IBM's presentation manager.

Valentin   :-)  :-)
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