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Article #31515Mfinder About Box (Was: Microsoft cuts corners, actually (they do!))
From: Network News
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1988 00:40
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1988 00:40
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dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
>[...] Apple's engineers had to keep adding patches to the SYSTEM
>software to ensure that Microsofts code would run!
Remember the Multifinder about box which was "edited" at the insistence
of Apple's legal department?
"Special Effects . . . . . XXXXXXXXX" (Guess which software company
they meant...)
[Yes, I've seen the unedited list. No I won't tell. I can't afford lawyers.]
-Jim Hayes Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA.
hayes@amdcad.amd.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!amdahl!amdcad!news From: news@amdcad.AMD.COM (Network News) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mfinder About Box (Was: Microsoft cuts corners, actually (they do!)) Message-ID: <22733@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 25 Aug 88 00:40:58 GMT References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com> <11540168@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Reply-To: hayes@crackle.AMD.COM (Jim Hayes) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18