I can’t give any insights into the management pressures and engineering issues that led to such a release going out the door, but as an organisation the AutoCAD team certainly learned a lot from this misstep. I was busy finishing my studies, at the time, and so can’t comment firsthand, but it’s something everyone says. The initial R13 release was basically unusable. (I suppose that’s an obvious assertion, in the sense that there’s no way our user base could still be using AutoCAD R12 for DOS today, but to understand exactly what I mean, please read on. I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that if the R13 release hadn’t happened, Autodesk would not be here today. What I do see – and often talk to people about when they raise it with me – is the importance of the R13 release to AutoCAD as a product and to Autodesk as a company. This post is absolutely not about me trying to rewrite history. If people would like to share their own experiences with R13 – whether positive or negative – then please feel free to post a comment. So I didn’t experience the full pain caused by the quality of that particular release… while I can empathise with it, I didn’t exactly live it myself on a daily basis (like many of our customers did). I joined Autodesk in August 1995, which was about when the R13 release had stabilised (I have some recollection of c4 or c4a being released soon after I joined, but I can’t track down the exact timing of the R13 point releases). This is one of my favourite “chat over a beer” topics, and one that seems relevant to where we are today with Fabric, so I wrote Jürgen a quick note to say that I’d reply via my blog. Do you remember that release, it was terrible? I read your last post and remembered a poster. The email referred to our recent trip down memory lane… It came with this image, which certainly brought back memories. Over the weekend I received an email from Jürgen Becker.
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