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 art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 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: > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-11-28-002-20-NW-SW > > 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 > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-777-0436 > ------ > > > > > > >