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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
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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=