Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!iuvax!rutgers!dptg!att!cbnewsk!ech From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: The Answer (Re: Hypercard 1.2.5? Waaaaiit A Second) Message-ID: <1081@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 15:07:35 GMT References: <35049@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 From article <35049@apple.Apple.COM>, by chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach): >> - 1.2.4 wasn't used because it would be too obvious that >> . they were just skipping 1.2.3. > Nope. 4 is an unlucky number in Japan, so Gassee and the Hypercard team > decided to skip it. Ye gods. We finally get Nancy's astrologer out of the White House... I guess this means that the next feature release is 1.5; 1.3 looks too much like (dare I whisper it?) (*thirteen*), and the Japanese will shun 1.4. Now, if Apple considered "III" unlucky, I could understand that... =Ned=