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Re: DEC puts first marketroid on the moon

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From: Phill Hallam-Baker
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 22:58
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In article <kGd=p9+@engin.umich.edu>, grue@rorge.engin.umich.edu (Paul Howell)
writes:

|>In article <1993Jan6.100304.616@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin
|>Fairbairns) writes:
|>> The thing that totally boggles me is that a (relatively) decent outfit
|>> like DEC should be bruiting their listing in a book as tacky as the
|>> GBR.
|>
|>dec just sent mail out on their dec-managers mail alias asking if in
|>the next osf/1 release for alpha, should the most recent osf/motif 1.2 
|>release be included.
|>
|>is this a no brain'r or what?
|>
|>gbr and "would you like to use current software?" makes one wonder.

Well I can see that people might possibly want to stage the upgrades. If you are
in the position of having to get your kit working on a new O/S I can see the
attraction of keeping to the same version of Motif while the operating system is
unstable.

In my day we used to do science experiments letting one parameter vary and
keeping everything else constant. 

Quite nice to be asked in fact...

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Phill Hallam-Baker
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