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Re: Dropping bundled applications (was: Re: 3.0 and WriteNow)

#3723
From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 16:16
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>In article <1992Oct3.010449.12785@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.091430.11860@ITcorp.com> geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>>
>>How come the release keeps getting bigger, yet the functionality
>>continues to shrink?
>>--
>>	Geoff Kuenning	 geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff
>
>
>	SHRINK??????  What do you call PostScript Level II, Interactive/Photo-
>realistic RenderMan/3DKit, AppleTalk, NetWare, PANTONE Color, Macintosh FS,
>Application Links, CD-ROM, DBKit, Distributed Objects, ISDN/PhoneKit, the
>Workspace now reuses emptied icon slots on the screen and setuid/gid files
>are displayed in the File Viewer's "listing" mode 8^), etc.
>
>	What got unbundled?  WriteNow!	MusicKit!  /usr/include?  8^)
>
>--Felix

    'Look at the pretty pictures ma'!!  All this stuff is great for
    programmers like us but all the user community sees are the
    applications that use them, and if the applications aren't there then
    you are kinda in trouble.

					-Matt

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re:  Dropping bundled applications (was: Re: 3.0 and WriteNow)
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References:  <1992Sep24.035854.7939@ni.umd.edu> <1992Oct2.091430.11860@ITcorp.com> <1992Oct3.010449.12785@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 92 08:16:04 PST
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