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Warp delayed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H. Kim)
Wed Oct 26 13:54:37 1994

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:54:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "John H. Kim" <jokim@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jokim@MIT.EDU
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU

In message Wed, 26 Oct 1994 09:52:25 PDT,
  Neeraj_Gupta.OSBU_North@xerox.com  writes:

> I am really licking my chops to get my hands on Warp.  The earliest
> anybody around here expects to have it in stock is Nov 24!

Front page of the Science section of the NY Times.  IBM found a serious bug
in Warp.  Since they hadn't shipped the boxes to retailers yet, they
decided to delay general availability rather than put out a bug fix.

Hmm... Was Warp a front page story when it was announced?
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