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At 09:49 AM 3/30/97 -0800, you wrote: >On 3/29/97 8:14 AM, you said: > >>" . . . writing to OpenStep bestows an almost Javaesque reach for the >>application. Once written, it need only be recompiled to run on various >>flavors of Unix and Windows NT." >> >>You can find some or all of this at BYTE's website. > > >Don't confuse him, don't slow him down. > >He's been claiming a Mac version is "almost ready" for more than two >years. > >If he ever delivers a version that runs under the current 7.x system, it >will run under Rhapsody. > >He has been infected with the computer-generated "Real Soon Now" malady, >which destroys one's ability to correctly gauge time, regardless of the >scale. > >Furthermore, if he really is developing software for the Mac, he already >knows. > >And as a last straw, we ARE discussing an OS that is slated for release >in MID 1998! > >Now, I respectfully submit that adding a time frame measured in years to >an equation that already contains an individual who is not capable of >gauging time or accurately estimating the length of a development cycle, >and you have added yet another delay to the process. > >The best thing Chris could do would be to shut his yap about Macintosh, >as he has nothing but promiseware to offer now, but I would look for the >Mac version to be available before I would look for that to happen. > >--------- >"Huh?" > --Jammer, 1992 >--------- > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > Just so you have some clue as to what your saying. Apple was writting the conversion of Abyss for free. They were doing at their own pace. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. But we really had no say in the timing. They had fully operational code in early january. At that point it looked like we would finally be ready to go to Beta testing. A few weeks latter all hell broke loose at apple and people started loosing their jobs left and right. 6 weeks went by with no word from the perople that were working on Abyss. Finally we found out that they were no longer at apple. Several more weeks or trying to find them passed with no luck. Only last thursday did we finally get back in touch. We are now trying to arrange for the programer to work for us directly. This MAC version has been FAR more PAIN then it will ever be worth!!! But, eventually we will have the darn thing done. To much time and effort expended now to bail on the misserable thing. Christopher M Parrett President Abysmal Diving Inc. Makers of Abyss, Advanced Dive Planning Software 6595 Odell Place, Suite G, Boulder, Colorado, 80301 USA http://WWW.ABYSMAL.COM Phone, 303-530-7248 Fax, 303-530-2808 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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