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Article #1573

Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)

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From: Michael Peirce
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 02:21
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In article <1992Apr11.151138.3378@athena.mit.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), dks@athena.mit.edu (dks) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.152837.2483@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
> >In article <19738@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
> >>In article <1992Apr1.210152.14212@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> bjag@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh) writes:
> >>--
> >>--While we're bashing Microsoft, I thought I'd throw in a few bashes about
> >>--Claris.
> >>
> >>For my 2 cents, I think it's pretty piss poor that MacDraw Pro doesn't
> >>support Publish and Subscribe. Was it a secret or something? Even the
> >>bug-droids at DeltaPoint managed to include P&S in DeltaGraph Pro, so
> >>I don't see why Claris had such difficulty.
> >
> >Because they had frozen the feature set for MacDraw Pro before
> >they could include any of the System 7.0 features. 
> 
> 
> Is this supposed to be an excuse, an explanation, or a definition
> of the problem?

Yes.

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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
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Subject: Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)
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Date: 12 Apr 92 02:21:41 GMT
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