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 ------
