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- From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: NeXTstep 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.024152.2336@nic.umass.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug18.204351.178605@lexmark.com> <1992Aug18.220408.24269@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:41:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.220408.24269@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.204351.178605@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com
- >(Christopher Songer) writes:
- >> I'd have to agree with this. My current assumption is that 3.0 is likely
- >> to be pretty unstable -- I think I'm going to wait for 3.1. If this does
- >> in fact come to pass (I'd like to be wrong) then Next seems to be making
- >> a habit of this. (I'm sure everyone recalls how stable 2.0 was :) Next
- >> has great software, but the base has to be stable for it to be usable.
- >
- >NeXT is not currently planning a 3.1 release. They would like to be able
- >to make 4.0 the next release. I am cynical, but I expect that, eventually,
- >the reasons against an interim release will be overcome.
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- Unlness 3.0 runs on every piece of hardware they will have between 3.0 and
- 4.0 (i.e. no new hardware until 4.0) then I'd expect 3.x releases if not
- just for new hardware. They would be silly not to fix bugs in these
- releases.....
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- :: Christopher Lloyd :: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu :: Yrrid, Inc. ::
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