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At 03 FEB 1999 05:32:22PM curious wrote:

AREV Specific

I always wondered why Revelation ended at release G.. the infamous REVG2B. Why G? Why was there never an 'H'?

Is it because 'G' is the 7th letter of the alphabet? Is it a coincidence that God created the world and rested on the 7th day?

There are seven letters in'BEATLES'. George begins with 'G'. Is George dead? If you spin your original 5 1/4" Rev disk can you hear what is says? It's amazing.

Can anyone enlighten me?

At 03 FEB 1999 06:03PM Warren wrote:

There was a "wishlist" call for Rev. H put out on the Cosmos BBS and the publication Cosmos used to send out to registered users. The next thing anybody knew was Jim Harding showed up after a long weekend with something called "Advanced Revelation".

Don't forget that there was a product called Network Revelation also.

In a nutshell Advanced Revelation 1.0 is more or less Rev. H, in the same manner that Windows 95 is Windows 4.0 or Word for Windows 6.0 is Word for Windows 3.0 or Windows 2000 is WinNT 5.0.

At 04 FEB 1999 06:10AM Eric Emu wrote:

I've had several recent upgrades of REVG2B. I'm waiting eagerly for the NPP / NT Service for REVG.

Eric

At 04 FEB 1999 09:26AM akaplan@sprezzatura.com - [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura, Inc.[/url] wrote:

My understanding was the the first RevH product became ARev. After ARev was released, there was going to be a second release of RevH with some fixes and other things, which was where the wishlist and adivsory board came in, but that was abandoned around the time of the takeover.

Assuming the second RevH would have reached market, the plan was for new development and ideas to go into one line, and after all the kinks were worked out, moved to the other. Can't remember which was which.

Found a file cabinet in the old support room once filled with all sorts of RevH trivia. It's probably still floating about somewhere.

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

At 04 FEB 1999 03:03PM Warren wrote:

Well, some of us are still waiting for Rev H.

I guess we can get in line with Eric Emu while he waits for the NPP/NT service for G2B.

At 04 FEB 1999 05:31PM Gary Gnu wrote:

Eric,

Have you ever used GORev, the RevG version on OS/2? You should try and find a copy if you haven't. ROS file with millions of frames. Run this on an HPFS drive, there's no limit to the frames. Plus, with the flat memory model, it uses all your XMS memory. Up to 4M variables, it's great.

I don't know how I lived without it.

Gary