Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

[Art Campbell]

I agree with your chronology of official releases, but I'm also
remembering a preview or proof of concept or something similar that
(*I think* -- I didn't record it in my diary) surfaced in the 94-95
time frame. I got a look at it because I was free-lancing for UNIX
World magazine at the time and I'd done a FrameMaker review (on the
Sun 3/60) for them even earlier. If I'm remembering correctly, it was
intended for X Windows to try to move away from OS-specific releases.

Art Campbell
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote:
> Art Campbell wrote:
>
>> Yup, that was the official release, but there were betas and "escaped"
>> releases way before then.  Frame Tech was more of a UNIX house and the
>> UNIX>Linus porting work was largely done there; Adobe never did much
>> with any workstation products
>
> There was no official Linux release, the 5.5.6 version _was_ the beta.
> Here's a LinuxWorld post about the end of beta testing and the decision
> not to release a final product:
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> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-11-28-002-20-NW-SW
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> You're right about FT being more UNIX-oriented -- that's where FM began.
> (I first saw FM on Sun 3/60s about '88 or '89. I thought it had promise,
> but wasn't ready to replace the Interleaf software we were using.)
>
> At one time, it ran under SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and who
> knows what other flavors. So if by "escaped," you mean someone (in or
> out of FT/Adobe) hacked a way to run one of those UNIX versions on
> Linux, I suppose it's possible... I only know about the 5.5.6 beta.
>
> Sorry to be so argumentative and picky. I've been doing tedious
> gruntwork for hours, due to the complete revamping of a product's menu
> structure, and it's made me cranky.
>
> Plus, I never lie and I'm always right. ;-)
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
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