Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Mark Eaton
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 01:37

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In article <40tjkj$b69@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

> I was *not* "flaming away".  I was pointing out technologies that
> people were attributing to Apple that were not correctly attributable
> to Apple, and took a little less time than I admittedly should have
> and got taken to task for one sentence out of 27 (I counted).
> 
> I admitted the error, but the other 26 sentences remain unaddressed
> and were not "proven wrong" through guilt-by-association with the
> incorrect sentence.
> 

I didn't save the original article. I didn't realize this much flack would
come of it. But the only two assertions you made (that I remember) were
that QuickTime was an SGI innovation (wrong), and that PlainTalk was
'fluff' (which I did respond to, with an 'IYHO'). 

Hardly what I would call well reasoned non-flames...

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:37:43 -0800
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