...1989.

Come 1992, the ``resources of Autodesk'' were still funding ``talent of the Xanadu team'' which had not, as of that date, produced anything remotely like a production prototype-in fact, nothing as impressive as the 88.1x prototype which existed before Autodesk invested in Xanadu. On August 21, 1992 Autodesk decided to pull the plug and give its interest in Xanadu back to the Xanadudes.