Re: "...XyWrite to its knees" -Reply -Reply

[Steve Crutchfield SCRUTCH@xxxxxxxx]

I stand, er, SIT corrected.

Still, my hats off to you XyQuestrians. Signature was a slug.
XyWrite 4.0 was a vast improvement.



≫>  03/14/97 12:19am ≫>
Steve Crutchfield writes:
≪ a good portion of
 what was Signature was re-written by TTG to be turned into
 XyWrite 4.  ≫

Huh-uh. TTG qua TTG didn't do squat (sorry, Kenny). The
process of making
Signature into a usable DOS and Windows (well, maybe not
quite so usable in
Windows; read on) fell to the original but rapidly dwindling gang.
 We had a
dozen or so engineers (a laughable number compared to WP
and MSW) working on
the origina product; when I left TTG, there was just Dave and
Sam (and maybe
Fred). No new "TTG" blood was transfused into the operation.
By the time I
left, the Windows version was just recently out the door. With
our reduced
forces, you can imagine why it wasn't - uh - very stable. But for
good or
ill, all versions of XyWrite were written by the original
Xyquestrian bunch.


Tim Baehr
tbaehr@xxxxxxxx