Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!mike From: mike@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike McNelly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP bias's Message-ID: <7370367@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Date: 15 Apr 91 16:50:02 GMT References: <1991Apr13.011054.15941@sura.net> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA Lines: 55 > >From: lang@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John J. Lang) > >Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp > >Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions > >Message-ID: <7370361@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> > >Date: 12 Apr 91 18:56:48 GMT > >References: > >Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA > >Lines: 41 > ...... > > Does anyone else notice any problem with the following statements? > >> How about the keyboard and mouse? How noisy/hot would a system with > >> two internal 400Mb disks be? Would it be reasonably pleasant in an > >> office environment? > >I have had both sitting on/under my desk, and have not noticed a problem. > >I find the keyboard and mouse to be fine. > >> Does it connect directly to thinwire ethernet? > >Yes. > >> How reliable is the standard C compiler? Are the higher optimization > >> levels sufficiently reliable to be usable? Is ANSI C included with > >> HPUX or available separately? > >We compile about a 'billion' lines of graphics code with the standard C > >compiler, using full optimization. There have been problems in the > >past, most have been fixed, a few have been worked around. > >I think ANSI C is included, and uses the same optimizer. > HP mice are "fine"? (they stink) Wow, someone at HP compiles billions > of lines of HP code on a HP box and it works, im impressed. How about > all you ppl from HP preaching HP *ATLEAST* put some sort of disclaimer > in your Emails. > This is not the only example I have seen in the last week. It is getting > pretty bad. It makes a difference if the opinions expressed are coming > from employees of the same company. Since this is comp.sys.HP, how about HP > employees making it REAL clear whose opinion they state. > nick > nick@umuc.umd.edu Nick, I think if you'll look at the top part of you posting you'll see the company name is fairly prominently displayed. Most of the postings to the net contain both a signature and an email address which I had previously assumed people could decipher. If you see any email or posting from *.hp.com it's a strong clue where it came from. Lots of our most critical customers are internal, I can assure you, and we don't take loyalty oaths. You're free to read anything into our postings that you wish. I think the author of the note you quoted was trying to make an honest effort to help the requester. Mike McNelly mike@fc.hp.com (That's Hewlett Packard Company)