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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
Message-ID: <4731.284500fb@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 30 May 91 18:41:14 GMT
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In article <42390@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
> Gee, didn't you notice the smiley at the end?  That was your signal not
> to take it seriously.  Some people sure are cynical, especially with
> regard to Intel.  They'd _never_ do something like what I described :-)

Another facet of this that no-one commented on - it came right at the
end of a heavy flame war on news.admin because Ed Vielmetti posted
a similar joke with no smiley.  This one calmed down faster.

dan herrick