Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!rrd
From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ARCHIVE CRASH
Message-ID: <7360044@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 18:35:13 GMT
References: <1910@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Lines: 22

In comp.sys.handhelds, akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn) writes:

>    Ray Depew: Why your devotion to rev A?  Should I keep mine, or allow it
>    to be turned into soylent green next month, as scheduled?
>    -- Joe Horn -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. --

Irrational reason:  I worked my tail off to earn it, and I'm kind of 
sentimentally attached to it.  I may buy a later revision one day.

Rational reason:  I'm doing some third-party software development and writing
for the 48, and I want to make sure my code works on all revisions.  I'm 
making the (dangerous) assumption that if it works on Rev.A, it'll work on
any revision.  I can't assume that the reverse is true.

Besides, I might "one day "find a good use for some of the Rev.A bugs and other 
unintentional features.  My favorite:  the one where you can cause the ticking
clock to be displayed inside your grob. If the grob is bigger than 131x64,
when you use { # r # c } PVIEW to look at different parts of it, the clock
stays anchored around the grob's { # 62d # 5d }pixel location.

Regards
Ray