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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!olivea!apple!dlyons
- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: The Manager from BrainStorm
- Message-ID: <76486@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:31:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.082620.8107@rdg.dec.com> <1993Jan5.210302.1080@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1993Jan5.210302.1080@ifi.unizh.ch> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:
- >gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >:
- >: A friend of me send me a letter from BrainStorm Software a French
- >: Software company. In this letter there is an announcement on
- >: 'The Manager' which is a MultiFinder for the GS.
- >:
- >: I'm now very confused as an announcement of SwitchIt! as been made
- >: last week. Is SwitchIt! the same as The Manager ?. Which one is the
- >: best.
- >:
- >: -Erik.
- >
- >No, it's not the same. This program has been available _several_ years
- >but thanks to a stupid, silly and destructive legal trick of Apple's
- >employees it never found its way into the marketplace. [...]
-
- This is news to me...do you have any details? During my work in DTS
- and Apple II engineering I have seen bug reports from BrainStorm, and
- I have seen certain Finder features implemented after they requested
- them; but I do not know of any silly or destructive legal tricks. It
- bothers me to see statements like that without hard information.
- --
- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
-
- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
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