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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ONE WEEK TO CALL FOR VOTE
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.163032.21537@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 16:30:32 GMT
References: <4068@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1991Mar5.030117.17209@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <6465@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
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In article <6465@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes:
>-----FLAME ON-----
>Excuse me, but this is just a little too petty and self-centered to go
>unanswered. Why is it that you cannot see that benefitting someone else does
>nothing to benefit you? Why do people insist on treating this as physical
>-----FLAME OFF-----

If the proposed split did nothing but make life easier for non-48 users, I'd
happily vote for it.  But it will complicate things for 48 users who have an
interest in other handhelds.  It will complicate things for 28 users.  It will
complicate things for 68 (or whatever the next HP professional handheld is) 
users.  And it will look damn silly  a year or so down the line when the
industry goes the way of all industries and the 48 is just another blip on
the curve.

Or put it this way:
 When the HP-35 came out, was a c.s.hh.35 group formed?
   Would an HP-35 group be viable today?
 When the HP-21 came out, was a c.s.hh.21 group formed?
   Would an HP-21 group be viable today?
 When the HP-41 came out, was a c.s.hh.41 group formed?
   Would an HP-41 group be viable today?
 When the HP-28 came out, was a c.s.hh.28 group formed?
   Would an HP-28 group be viable today?
 Is the 48 really any different?

>Sincerely, I have better things to do with my time. I have book chapters
>overdue to publishers, undergraduate and graduate students running amok,
>residents who are daily testing the limits of what it takes to kill people, an
>administration that wants to spend $1,100,000 of the $3,500,000 computer budget
>I fought to get them on consultants to tell them it was a good idea, an OR that
>needs a total reorganization of its data management, a respiratory therapy
>department that needs a software interface to their blood gas machines
>yesterday, a wife who wants to drop out of business school so she can go to law
>school, and a two year old daughter. 

Pardon me for not making the sarcastic flamefest reply this deserves, but what
does this have to do with anything?  I'm a busy guy too, but I don't blame it
on c.s.hh.

>If you people think you have the direct
>line to God, fine, just leave it at home when you sign on the air.

Good advice.



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 - Rich Holmes                  rich@suhep.bitnet or rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
   Syracuse U. Physics Dept.     or if you must: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu
   "I don't lie.  I'm cultivating a reputation for honesty so I can blow it
    when something big comes along.  This ain't it." -- Steven Brust, Phoenix