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- From: mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann)
- Subject: Re: TT Unix ASV
- Message-ID: <q+vnk4a.mats@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 04:49:17 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <3576@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> <s_tns7n.mats@netcom.com> <1992Sep10.053147.11164@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
-
- >That is incorrect. Atari has not "pretty much canned the ASV
- >project." The ASV development team was not "laid off" either.
- >According to Bob Brodie, Director of Communications @ Atari Corp.,
- >the ASV project has been completed and that's why the development
- >team is now gone. In a sense, yes, "development has stopped" but
- >only because it's done. He said Atari wouldn't be commercially
- >releasing the full package until they have their 68040-based
- >machine(s) ready but that a text-based (i.e. w/o XWindows, etc.)
- >"student" version would be made available for existing machines.
-
- Feel free to interpret how you like what a Director of Communications
- says. Also feel free to discuss with the folks who lost their jobs
- whether or not they were actually "laid off". Yes, a "production
- release" was done shortly before the layoffs (or whatever you feel
- like calling them). Since when does that make a project "done"?
- Ever heard of maintenance and support? (For that matter, ever heard
- of a UNIX release that worked right first time? But that's another
- matter).
- --
- Mats Wichmann
- Unisoft Corporation
- mats@unisoft.com (or mats@netcom.com)
-
- Silly Disclaimer: speaking only for myself, except when I'm not.
-