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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:05:02 EDT
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
- Subject: "Pre-release" and "final" NB4: More shenanigans?
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- About a month ago I received, on request, a "pre-release"
- version of NB4, shipped and labeled as such. A week or
- so ago, I received, unrequested and by certified mail, no less,
- what appears to be the same package (some of the disks have
- printed, rather than hand-written labels). I haven't
- installed it, presuming it is the same version.
-
- I also chalked up NBI's shipping of the second kit as more
- signs of general mayhem in their order fulfillment realm,
- but the recent spate of "arrivals" is particularly worrisome.
- A letter today writes of his "non-pre-release" version being
- unable to accommodate previous IBID files by default; now,
- that to me is an acknowledged feature of the echt "pre-release"
- version. It seems to me that perhaps a number of these could
- be catalogued, and compared w/ those features in the so-called
- "non-pre-release" versions now cropping up, in Europe and elsewhere.
-
- Could NBI have sunk to a new level of prevarication and/or
- expediency, and is actually shipping such relatively hobbled
- and conceivably buggy versions (complete w/ no proper docs) as
- what was previously called "pre-release" and now, voila, is
- "final release" versions? (And I refuse to accept the excuse
- that "it is our fault, we asked them to hurry it up and now we've
- got it [eat it raw]" ... . . ).
-
- It is just one further reflection on the quality of NBI as a business
- that such practices could even be imputed to them. I hope I
- am wrong.
-
- Robert Braham
- Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Bitnet: RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
-