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From: luigi@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (John L Luigi Giasi)
Subject: Re: Will the bugs in 6.0.7 be fixed (i.e. will there be a 6.0.8)?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 20:08:14 GMT
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In article <7673@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@beam.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>And I am SICK AND TIRED of people saying they're going to wait for
>some fictional 7.0.1 before they'll upgrade.  Listen, folks -- System
>7.0 is going through some MAJOR testing.  Give Apple some credit,
>won't you?  The first major distribution of System 7.0 was with the
>alpha 9 release back in the fall;

Try even earlier than that (like April 1990)

>                                 since then, they've been smashing
>away at every bug they find.  System 7.0b1 was finished except for
>
>This is NOT some weekend hack, peoples!  This system release is being
>painstakingly designed and debugged.  It's been in serious development
>for well over a year.  As I've said in countless posts before which
>I'll be glad to forward to anyone who asks, System 7.0 is just too

OK OK Brian, I agree with you that most people have been "Well I'll wait
for a few patches to come out before it is stable." in thier attitude.
But lets realize that the whole industry operates that way with every 
product (system software, applications, peripherals, cards, and machines)!!!

It is hard to change people's minds when the entire computer industry has
been "Well our NEXT version will take care of that!" for soo long.
 
Then again, users of macs have a right to be upset, we have been waiting
a long time...  At this rate Apple will be making the Mac II GTzx(extended),
the Cortland Plus, and the Granny Smith SE before System 7 gets out of beta!
The whole vaporware hype mentality owns the industry and even when (and I 
applaud Apple for making sure 7.0 works efficiently and bugfree) I have been
properly warned that 7.0 will be a long time coming, it has been frustrating.
(Sorry, I know that it is completely unoriginal, but I just couldn't hold
back the apple variety pun, it just overcame my keyboarding.) 


Luigi Giasi
Luigi@rpi.edu

PS Hell, I was pretty content with b1!!
