Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!swarren From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: <1991Apr08.185353.150@convex.com> Date: 8 Apr 91 18:53:53 GMT References: <20324@cbmvax.commodore.com> <20354@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Apr6.065959.5656@ncsu.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: neptune.convex.com In article <1991Apr6.065959.5656@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >In jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > >>In <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: >>>[ flames about commodore not having introduced new chip sets...] >> >> Stupid me, for responding to M. Barrett, but.... >> A quick head-count around here reveals that software guys are >>outnumbered by chippies, not even counting hardware guys like Dave. However, >>no amount of torture will get out of me they work on... ;-) As usual, you >>have absolutely no concept what you're talking about. > > Hate to say it, but that last sentence was a cheap shot. Gee, of _course_ > he has no concept of what y'all are doing: you don't _tell_ anyone . > But is it fair to say "I can't tell ya", and then turn around and blast > that same person for NOT knowing what you're doing? Well, in this case you need to know the history of Marc Barrett's posting habits on the subject of Commodore's internal practices and policies. Marc has been pretty quite lately, so you might not understand why Randall reacted so strongly to his posting. In the past Marc has had a habit of continuously posting long stinging diatribes against all sorts of internal policies of Commodore about which he had/has no knowledge whatsoever. On some of his better days he launched seven or eight different polemics all on the same subject and full of similar disinformation. As a result there has developed a knee-jerk reflex against him in the Amiga groups. Sometimes the responses are out of proportion to the actual post from Marc that they are responding to. In these cases the responders are often responding not just to the posting itself, but to the whole series of postings from Marc that still linger in the backs of their minds. Whether Marc deserves this treatment is a question I cannot answer. But there is no doubt that he went to a great deal of effort to gain his reputation here. _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com --