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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Submitters by Site by number of articles for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2081@trlluna.trl.oz>
Date: 15 Aug 90 01:30:36 GMT
References: <1417@philmtl.philips.ca>
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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.


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