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On 17 Feb 1995, Kristopher Magnusson wrote:

> Edwin S. Russell (esr@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
> 
> : Last December I called WP and asked for some information on WP for NeXTs
> : and for AIX.  I needed the info quickly.  They promised to fax it to me 
> : the NeXT :-) day.  Three weeks later (now January) I wrote them a letter to 
> : ask what happened to the information .  A week after that they sent the info 
> : on AIX but they said they had discontinued selling the NeXT version at the 
> : end of December.
> Novell had nothing to do with the decision to drop the NEXTSTEP version 
> of WP. The decision was all over and done with nearly a year before.
> 
I'm very disappointed by WP, too! It seems as WP is dropping every 
'small' OS. Just a short story about the Amiga WP version: They got 
sponsored by Commodore to do the port (some big bucks, developers and 
hardware went to WP). When they finished a beta version everybody was 
happy, because there wasn't anything better. It was very expensive 
though, but I believe it sold quite good! For me the release was just a 
beta, because on many modells, printing didn't work well, and some 
features just weren't implemented. After doing this 'small' port. WP 
dropped WP for the Amiga, nothing new was done, because 'there are too 
many cracked versions'. I can't believe this (I own an original, and it was 
pretty much money these times, but I thought it was worth the support I 
would get...). I'd like to know the reason, why they dropped the NeXTSTEP 
port. Surely it isn't the number of cracked versions...

CU,

  Boerny.

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