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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton)
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:12:45 GMT
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- In <cline.711902753@willow.cs.scarolina.edu> cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
-
- >The main reason I am in favor of an alt instead of a comp group is that it
- >is not certain that Newton will be the final name given to it, in fact it's
- >probably just an internal project name, much as the Saratoga I'm typing this
- >on was.
-
- I disagree. In the past, Apple never used internal project names
- at product introductions. The only reason why we know the internal
- names is because they "leaked" out. I think Newton probably will
- be as much a product name as Macintosh.
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