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Article #31474Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually
From: Ed Anson
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 21:53
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1988 21:53
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In article <15952@apple.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com.UUCP (David Casseres) writes: > > Apple has never claimed to be offering >any support to people who want to write printer drivers. Not quite true. At the spring developers conference, last April, an Apple representative publicly offered support to printer developers who wanted to develop drivers for their products. That offer was followed up by phone calls and links promising specific support. Then there was a sudden change of policy. NOW apple expressly does not support driver development. The stated reason is that they don't know how to do it. > A document that really >explained how to do the job would be very large, everybody would REALLY >hate what it told you to do, and it would probably be obsolete by the >time it became available. Instead, we now just get to guess, and rely on old documentation (the phone book) which was never complete and is ALREADY obsolete. NOTE: The opinions expressed above are MY OWN. Don't blame my employer! -- ===================================================================== Ed Anson, Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson NH 03051 (603) 885-8712, anson@elrond.CalComp.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!spray!anson From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually Message-ID: <2414@spray.CalComp.COM> Date: 22 Aug 88 21:53:18 GMT References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com> <870217@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <9867@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9872@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9874@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9877@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15952@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA Lines: 26