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Re: WHEN???



On Sun, 2 Jul 1995 23:18:27 -0700 (PDT) you wrote:

>> Almost all of ARDI's engineering work is done by three people: Mat
>> Hostetter, Cotton Seed and myself.  All three of us are working almost
>> all our waking hours on Executor.  If bugs are found that are
>> "showstoppers", a release date will slip; there's almost no way to
>> speed things up since we're already working at full capacity.  If, on
>> top of that, one of us has a mother-in-law rushed to the hospital,
>> that will only make things worse.
>I try to avoid jumping on people, but when I see people jumping all over
>ARDI it really ticks me off.  ARDI is doing an _incredible_ job.  We aren't
>talking Microsloth or IBM or even Borland here, we are talking _three_ guys
>working with almost no funding and pulling off a _very_ impressive coding
>feat.  The fact that they manage to get as much done as they do frankly
>astounds me.  The fact that someone who can't even spell disgusting is
>jumping all over three guys who are pulling almost superhuman efforts to
>support a product they are practically giving away make me want to vomit.
>Please, a show of hands for ARDI.  Keep up the good work and frankly, when
>you are happy with 1.99n, release it, but not until then.  In the meantime,
>everyone else take two Valium and see the shrink in the morning.
>
>--Toby Everett
>
He has my full support. We are talking about a beta and compare this
beta with 1.2 . Forget it. We should be glad to have such a nice beta
at all.


--Peter Bramlage