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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace)
Subject: NeXT to go with 88K (?)
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Date: 13 Apr 91 14:50:21
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   Date: 12 Apr 91 14:40:00 GMT
   From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)

   Call me crazy, but I don't think developers should have too many
   problems just recompiling their programs.

Believe me it's a severe hassle since you have to rebuild everything,
run it through your QA, change your documentation and price list, get
your support folks to know about the change (since people will ask new
questions about it, even if the hackers know it's the same).  All this
is easier for little companies than for big ones.

The converter I mentioned would be some sort of stopgap users could
use though; I wasn't anticipating that companies would use it and ship
the product that way!
