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From: craig@summus.UUCP (Craig Petty)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Papers on caching strategys wanted
Message-ID: <178@summus.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 89 19:21:32 GMT
References: <1989Aug15.161009.14193@specialix.co.uk> <16374@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: craig@summus.UUCP (Craig Petty)
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In article <16374@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> pmchen@mustard.Berkeley.EDU (Peter M. Chen) writes:
>In article <1989Aug15.161009.14193@specialix.co.uk> jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
>>I am looking for papers or other published material on caching
>>All help comments, etc welcome.
>=============================
>I sent this reply...
>> 
>> ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3, August 1985, pp. 161-203
>To which I got the following response...
>>Can you tell me the address to write to / mail for copies ?  
>>Thanks
>=============================
>Now, I don't mind (a lot) acting like a bibliography for somebody, although
>I object to someone using the net as a first source (do a *little* work yourself
>first--Smith's paper is referenced all over the place).
>
>However, not even being willing to pick up the referenced paper, especially
>something easy like ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, is going
>overboard on laziness.
>
>John, the address is your local library, or pick up any ACM TOCS to get the
>reprint address.
>Peter Chane




Dear Pete, may I call you Pete?
Perhaps not.  :-(

Most libraries in fact do not carry ACM Transactions.  Perhaps the
person who posted the original question was new to the computing world.
Perhaps not.  Most people, even computer types, do not know what the
ACM is.  

In your finite wisdom, you failed to mention what the heck ACM or TOCS
stands for.  I doubt even the most informed librarian will respond to
a request for the ACM TOCS.  My best guest would be the "Association
for Computing Machinery Table of Contents" or something.  But then
again, we're both university gurus. :-)

If this information is so well known, why didn't you simple share it
with the person rather than trying to embarrass him.

I don't like broadcasting this sort of thing on the net, but you shared
your obnoxious comments and thoughts so I thought I'd join the party.

But next time peteR, don't assume everyone reads PCGCAP or has
access to a large/university library. 

Oh yeah, PCGCA - Pete Chen's Guide to Computer Journal Acronyms