Path: utzoo!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 **really** wants to be a rainbow.
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Message-ID: <5007@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:13:13 GMT
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collins@grumpy.cs.unm.edu (Bill Collins) writes:a
>I don't like it either.  But lets not be naive.  Try not to point figners as
>you only have few, and there are more than these who would have you pay for
>their services.  If you want to be "that way", know what you are doing.

	I confess I don't understand the second sentence above. 

	I **thought** I was pointing out a positioning error on DEC's part,
	one that was a disservice to both the company and the customers.

>>  To quote a previous commentator, "mickey mouse crap and marketing tactics
>>that stink."

>Really?  I seem to hear that a lot.

	Yes, and for good reason.  Senior DEC managment need to provide a
bit of "managerial oversight", and avoid letting oversights like this (:-})
get through the marketing process.	


>"You're a mushroom, they plant you in a dark corner, they dump S... on you, and
>you grow."

  Nope.  
  I'm an evergreen, I'm dark, I'm threatening, I'm prickly and I block the
bitter winds and snow of Winter.

--dave
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