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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: Bad devices (timing loops)
Message-ID: <10526@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 21:32:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 21:32:18 1986
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In article <38@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
>   Actually, in reading Mr. Ngai's articles both here and on ba.politics,
>as well as elsewhere on the net, my impression is that Mr. Ngai expends 
>a great deal of energy defending the status quo. 
>
>   Now I realize that this is not a technical comment, and I further realize
>that this will be viewed as a personal "attack".  It is, however, a legitimate
>observation on the nature of Mr. Ngai's articles, and as such is a cogent 
>contribution to the overall discussion.

I thought the idea was to see if what someone posted made sense. Would
it be helpful if I said "Tom Keller spends a lot of his time attacking
Intel?" I would prefer to use arguments of the form "Tom Keller
attacks Intel for putting the 386's MMU on the chip, but doing so is
good because it saves chips, etc..." I hope you can see the difference
between these two forms of discussion.

It is true that in the case of the SCC, people have been saying it is
a particularly bad chip because it requires external timing to be done
for it. My response was that all chips require external timing so it
isn't fair to say the SCC is a *particularly* bad chip. If you wish to
interpret this as defending the status quo, that's your choice.  I'm
afraid I don't think your comment is relevant.
-- 
 "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will become the
  present, and respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was
  humanly possible."

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