Re: Formulab Neuronetics

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From: Kym Horsell
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <32b1e5d7.511225@news.sydney.apana.org.au>,
Raj Thomas <raj@gco.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Someone who claimed to be Jack <jakr@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>I read today that some Australian company has come up with a new
>>computer (MSP) architecture and programming "language" - the article
>>was touting this as an "intel/every-programming-language-extant-today"
>>killer.  
...
>The Australian Financial Review had a couple of very sceptical
>articles about them last week.
...
>Smells like premium, piscine snake-oil to me...
>The market must think so too, since their stock prices have plunged
>recently...

As more -- not necessarily very good evidence -- the "release" was
preceded by a couple of posts to comp.arch by a couple of weeks.
Not a single follow-up did I note. (The comp.arch articles seemed to
more-or-less along the same lines as newspaper and TV reports).

-- 
R. Kym Horsell
KHorsell@EE.Latrobe.EDU.AU              kym@CS.Binghamton.EDU 
http://WWW.EE.LaTrobe.EDU.AU/~khorsell  http://CS.Binghamton.EDU/~kym

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From: khorsell@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Kym Horsell)
Subject: Re: Formulab Neuronetics
Date: 1996/12/16
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