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From: cramer@clem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32532
Message-ID: <16268@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 11:13:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 11:13:10 1987
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Keywords: New product announcement
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In article <143@unsvax.UUCP> doon@unsvax.uucp (Harry W. Reed) writes:
>In article <4173@nsc.nsc.com> curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry) writes:
>>Today news releases went out on the NS32532. ...
>>
>>Just for interest, simulated Dhrystone performance of around 18,000 with 
>		    ^^^^^^^^^
>	Simulated?, simulated!!??!! Does National make a habit of introducing
>parts that it doesn't yet have working versions of ???

National is not the only company that announces parts before they are
ready - such announcements are common in the industry.  More irksome are
those advertisements that make it sound like the product is already here, when
it is not.  Can you say "Microsoft and OS/2?"  Sure, I knew that you could...

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