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Article #1853Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.
From: Ron Heiby
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1988 22:23
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1988 22:23
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Tom Blenko (blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU) writes: > I don't think it's at all out of line to think about and discuss what the > consequences of the third might be. It is, after all, current news. AHA! I aliased comp.sys.next to the wrong newsgroup on my system. I aliased it to comp.sys.misc. Now I find out that "it is, after all, current news." I should have aliased it to misc.headlines!!! > Regarding the merits of the machine, two points: > > this capability is simply not available to a lot of people, and > not to anyone for $6K/system. Ah, yes. Precisely! It's "simply not available". They aren't shipping, and even when they do, it'll only be for educational institutions. We don't need a newsgroup to discuss vaporware. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us Moderator: comp.newprod "There is a fine line between stupidity and cleverness." (This is Spinal Tap)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!heiby From: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc. Message-ID: <13678@mcdchg.chi.il.us> Date: 24 Oct 88 22:23:04 GMT References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <40975@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL Lines: 17