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From: scheinin@mrlaxb.mrl.uiuc.edu (Alan L. Scheinine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Essay on DN10K
Keywords: Apology
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Date: 2 May 91 02:41:22 GMT
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      Recently, I wrote:
 >   I sent a letter -- which in part is similar to the following text --
 >to Apollo about seven weeks ago.  I sent it to two people who knew me from
 >my beta-testing work, and to someone else who had replied to me previously.
 >I kept asking for a reply but got just two things: one insult; and from
 >another person (about a week and a half ago) a recipient who is very much
 >on the technical side rather than marketing, said that while he has no
 >control over policy, he would forward the letter to someone in marketing
 >who could answer it.  I've not heard anything more.

   Today I got a very nice email from one person to whom I originally
sent my letter, Mr. Paul Bemis.  There is a high probability that he was
NOT responding to the above complaint in comp.sys.apollo.  He wrote that
he had been on the road because of the launching of the HP 700 series and
just got back.  His reply was intelligent, friendly, and really useful.

   Now that I've got your attention.  In the long run, there will be OSF.
I think we need to push really hard for Domain O/S features and Display
Manager features for HP's implementation of OSF/1.  Write letters to HP
management.

Disclaimer:  These are my opinions.  Nothing herein reflects the policy of
any organization.
Alan Scheinine, Graduate Student   email: u10534@uy.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Loomis Laboratory of Physics       Phone: 217-333-1065
1110 West Green Street             FAX: 217-333-9819
Urbana, IL  61801