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Re: Alan Vymetalik's posting

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From: Dave Shevett
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1989 23:40
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This is a quick 'after the fact' message to all those who sent me hate mail
and generally abused my posting... 

The reason I was responding to Alan's posting was I disagreed with his
representation of the machine.  He seemed to be forcing the issue on anyone
who was reading that the Rainbow was the greatest thing this side of
silicon.  I disagreed with it, and I disagreed with how he presented his
claims.  

I owned a Rainbow for quite some time, and due to the problems already put
forward, I got rid of it in favor of a PC, which cost the same as the Rain-
bow, running the same software without any modifications.  Those of you
still running Rainbow's, more power to ya!  I'm still running a PDP 11/34
here with RSTS!  It's outdated and generally a pain, but I still enjoy it.

To those I offended by the post, I sincerely apologize.  Perhaps I was a
bit brusque on a few points, but I said what I wanted to say.  Again, my
apologies.


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From: shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett)
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Subject: Re: Alan Vymetalik's posting
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Date: 6 Mar 89 23:40:21 GMT
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