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Article #353Re: Top 25 News Submitters by Site by number of articles for the last 2 weeks
From: Allan Duncan
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 01:30
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 01:30
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From article <1417@philmtl.philips.ca>, by ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn):
> In referenced article, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>> 7 297 549.6 0.4% microsoft.UUCP (Microsoft)
>>> 12% comp.sys.amiga 11% comp.sys.amiga.tech 11% comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
>>
>>Is this not a somewhat bizzarre result, since so far as I know Microsoft
>>has no products at all for the Amiga?
>
> On the face of it perhaps, but 30 seconds investigation shows it to be
> not bizarre in any way.
>
> These Amiga postings are single 62Kb postings of the "introduction to
> this newsgroup" type by a single individual at Microsoft.
Well, not quite - the (appalling) Basic interpreter that comes with the
machine was written by Microsoft under contract.
Allan Duncan ACSnet a.duncan@trl.oz
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