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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.misc
Subject: Re: Mormons not Christians!?
Message-ID: <11751@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 12:43:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 12:43:32 1985
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References: <367@hercules.UUCP> <1784@uvacs.UUCP> <662@uwmacc.UUCP> <837@reed.UUCP> <783@druxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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(I've dropped net.philosophy, net.politics, and net.religion from this
 reply, for (hopefully) obvious reasons.)

In article <783@druxo.UUCP> larsen@druxo.UUCP (LarsenME) writes:
>Unfortunately, "effective" writing does not imply accuracy, so I cannot
>dispute the second statement above.  However, I would suggest that "many
>Christian groups" are as much in the dark about Mormons as the poster of
>the original article.  After all, you don't go to IBM or Xerox to get
>answers to your questions about a VAX, but the right folks at Digital can 
>tell you all you want to know.  You may not like the answers, but you get
>it from the source, not from rumor or hearsay.

That's a poor example, I'm afraid.  We've been trying for weeks to get
some detailed information about Vax architecture so we can resolve
some problems in the Clouds system (I'm writing an OS from scratch),
but all I've gotten so far are sales people asking me why I'm not
trying to write it under VMS!  Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!  And did you know
that if you buy any CI equipment, you can't get *ANY* documentation
to write your own device drivers?  That's company confidential and
not expected to be released for some time.  It's a good thing we 
found out in time so we didn't buy any CI's.  And that's just the
start....


That doesn't invalidate the point you're trying to make, but I'm so
frustrated with DEC-oids (the stories we could tell...and may), I 
just had to say something.  I feel better now.  Thanks.
We resume the disaster, already in progress.
-- 
Gene "7 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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