rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (11/29/89)
Has a release date been set or hinted at for R4 ? A release date of "end of the year" has been stated many, many times. Since everybody seems so anxious, here's my current expectation. R4 will be in the hands of Consortium members by the end of the year. Public access via anonymous ftp will be available during the first week of January. As usual, it will probably take a week or two longer before the Software Center will have inventory ramped up to start shipping tapes. Hopefully it will be possible to pick up R4 during the X Conference. Pricing of R4 through the Software Center has not yet been set, and probably won't be until late December, when we actually have a final tape count and page count. Please note that I said this is my "current expectation".