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From: ted@bangles.csd.sgi.com (Ted Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4D/20 manuals
Summary: Woof!
Message-ID: <39744@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 17:44:50 GMT
References: <8908081436.AA03608@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>
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In article <8908081436.AA03608@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes:
> 
>    You ship buggy, outdated OS software?!!!  That is reprehensibly
> irresponsible.  No wonder people have soo many problems with their
> 4D's.  Any responsible company would ship new machines with the lastest
> revision of software.
> --
> 
> 	Brent L. Bates

Wow!  Have you been talking to my mother again?

Seriously, some of our larger resellers are beating on us to ship older
versions of our software.  They have to go through a  fairly long QA cycle
for each revision of our software, and they want us to hold our releases
from the manufacturing floor.

So, I guess it just goes to show you can't please everybody.
--

Ted.
ted@sgi.com
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