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Re: More on ND compression (followup survey)

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From: Jim De Arras
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:44
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In article <CNH5730.92Apr12170251@calvin.tamu.edu> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu
(Charles N. Herrick) writes:
>In article <1992Apr12.150556.10435@cube.handheld.com> jmd@banana.handheld.com
(Jim De Arras) writes:
>   I'm glad to see NeXT is looking into this issue.
>   A peaceful settlement would
>   be best.  I understand under Virginia law, I could probably make bait and
>   swiitch stick.  I think enough other states are able to do so, 
>   also, so that a class action suit for fraud could be possible.
>
>Hope this won't come to pass. All of us would be badly-served by this.
>
>	chuck <cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu>
>--
> <->   My personal opinion, speaking only as myself, an individual :-)   <->
>	<->	Not an official document of anyone	<->
>	     <-> from: a SUN SPARC1+ w/ SUNos 4.1 <->
> 	    Charles N. Herrick <cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu>
>
>
I agree, but I must explore all my alternatives.   NeXT has mis-led (read LIED
to) me (and others, I believe) about the ND board.  They did NOT deliver what
they sold.  For a while, it looked like they were still behind the product, and
would fix the lack of compression, swapfile leak, etc., but now it has become
obvious to this thick-headed person that NeXT has pretty much told me where I
can stick it.  A multi-media project my company had has been canceled due to my
decision to buy a NeXTdimension system, rather than add Raduis-TV and a bunch
of other boards to a Mac FX, which would have produced a much more capable
multi-media system than the NeXTdimension has turned out to be, though far less
than was it was promised to be.  I'm smarting from my failure to deliver, based
on NeXT's published specs.  The ND is not 'color done right'.  It makes a
pretty picture, but that's about it.

I am by no means threatening legal action at this time.

Jim De Arras
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Subject: Re: More on ND compression (followup survey)
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