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Dum spiro spaero (While I breath, I hope)
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Sat, 8 Feb 1997 00:29:14 GMT
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Alexander Chaihorsky <alex@acds.STOPSPAMMERScom>
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> > Getting excited about new things and running away
> > from commitments. How MITesque!
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> OK, Uncle!
>
> I apologize that, at times in the past year, IC development has taken a
> back seat to our 32-bit C environment and vision system development. We
> realize that we have made a commitment to the community to come out with IC
> 3.1, and we do still intend to do so.
>
> However, given the delays, I owe more of an explanation than I've just
> given you. It isn't in fact the case that we've just "gotten excited about
> new things." Rather, it's that we absolutely have to pay attention to our
> higher-end product lines or our company won't survive. We have three
> people full time here, and our sales projections seem to indicate that IC
> sales can't be our sole support.
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> But I don't want to make it sound like our company has decided to ignore IC
> and 6811 development. We do intend to release IC 3.1. The Mac and UNIX
> ports are already ready (the current beta versions are what we'll ship);
> the Windows port isn't too far behind. We had assumed, perhaps
> incorrectly, that folks using Windows could survive with the beta problems,
> or with the old freeware IC. Given what I've heard here today, we'll
> redouble our efforts.
>
> -- Randy
Thanks, Randy, my good man!
Sorry if took a bit of playing with good old "honoris studioso". But you
can't blame a guy for trying.
Especially if it yields results. :)
Alex.
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