Re: XyWin 4.12

Allan Needell (NASSH100@SIVM.SI.EDU)
Fri, 10 Feb 95 08:47:36 EST

As was just pointed out, this maintenance release has been under
construction for some time. It will incorporate many of the special
fixes that have been made available to individual users in response to
specific complaints over the last year. Once the TTG development staff
has tested a fix and is somewhat confident of its stability they have
included it in the 4.12 package. At each change they have given the
package a new letter designation. I think they were up to or beyond
4.12I late last year. The 4.12 that started shipping yesterday will be
the new general release (new purchasers will get it).

I called TTG yesterday to see if a long standing order I placed for the
final 4.12 release was still on file. It wasn't, so I ordered it once
again. I was told it would ship yesterday or today. We'll see.

I found out a few other things in a pleasant conversation. 1st, TTG has
been hiring new sales staff. The person I spoke to was very eager to
please, but not really yet up to date with past history. Jeff Ramsay,
formerly Xywrite Product Manager, has left the company and apparently
someone else has taken over thatjob. Might I suggest that a brief
introduction from her to us here and on the PCAPP forum on Compuserve
would be nice. In any case, as of now TTG is still in business and they
are apparently accepting and filling orders. I learned nothing new
about development plans.

Allan Needell, Dept. of Space History, Nat'l Air & Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution, MRC 311, Washington, DC 20560
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