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In article <7039@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da
Silva) says:

>In article <1990Nov14.034507.19784@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu
>(Phil
>Dietz) writes:
>> Hmmmph....with the discussion of wild cards, people have been coming
>> out of the cracks and harassing ARP.  Boy if my memory works right (256
>> bit of course), when ARP came out, it was the hottest thing to use.

>Not me, dude. I've been harassing ARP since the beginning.

>(a) It's all in assembler. That's a big no-no for me.
>(b) They never got it all together. It was missing major programs (like copy)
>    and the programs that did come out tended to have weird bugs (um, non
>    standard features if you like).

>I'm sure (b) was due to (a).

Oh, give me a break!!! ARP was a not-for-profit (ad)venture by a group of
very talented and enthusiastic programmers, and they did a damn fine job, a
lot better than those cheesy BCPL crap-garbage-explitive commands!!!

Feel free to flame me, but stop flaming ARP!

-- Dan Babcock