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Re: NeXTWORLD Feb/Mar 1993 problems

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From: John Bartley
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 04:53
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In article <C0GKG9.5ux@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.  
Nicholson-Owens) writes:
> Here are a few things I noticed that are incorrect about this issue  
of  
> NeXTWORLD:
> 
> 2) Still in the Ten Most Wanted list, it says that the current  
version of NeXTSTEP is 2.9.  On all the documentation and versions I've  
seen, my OS says that it is version 3.0.  I don't even think there was  
a 2.9.  A little proofreading could have cleared this one up in a  
jiffy.
> -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)

I don't see a smiley after #2, so I assume you didn't understand their  
point. The 2.9 is just their way of saying that 3.0 isn't quite up to  
par - short of a "real" 3.0 - therefore it must have been 2.9. Poetic  
license, I think, not a typo.

John Bartley
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