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Re: Alpha Prices -- Any Idea out there??

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From: Andrew C. Burnette
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:31
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In article <BxMAwn.IK7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov10.203541.28218@aosg.gsf.dec.com> reeves@decvax.dec.com writes:
|> 
|> >
|> >Well, looking at the one under my desk, I see:
|> >
|> > . ISDN with a "don't use this or you go to prison" sticker
|> 
|> 	Sorry if this seems a waste of bandwidth, but I was wondering what 
|> this "don't use" comment means?
|> 
|> Dwight
|> 
|> Dwight
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|> Dwight A. Schwartz ---- "Help!  I've fallen asleep and I can't get up!" -VL
|> University of Illinois Department of Chemistry | Box 10-1 Noyes Laboratory
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With DEC,  it usually means they wish it was functional but it isn't.  Most likely
they can't get the software right(tell me another good story).

We bought one of their first turbo bus XPG (graphics) accelerators.  They delivered
a working Xserver three months after the hardware was in house.  Go figure.

All in all though,  OSF-1 looks good,  and the alpha machines are fast as hell.
-- 
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Andrew C. Burnette  acb@ncsu.edu 
Computer Systems Laboratory 
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