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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32532 (really Sun vaporware)
Message-ID: <2639@phri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 14:21:44 EST
Article-I.D.: phri.2639
Posted: Thu Apr  9 14:21:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 13:44:40 EST
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Keywords: New product announcement
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In article <16268@sun.uucp> cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes:
> 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...
> 
> Sam Cramer	uucp:	{cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!cramer
> 		arpanet: cramer@sun.com

	Even more irksome than that are companies that *accept purchase
orders* for products that don't exist yet.  Can you say "Sun-3 FPA"?  Can
you say "Sun-3 GKS"?  Sure, I knew you could!  Now, can you explain why I
ordered both of these items in February 1986, only to find out after the
systems arrived that the FPA's were still in testing and that GKS was still
being written, with an expected delivery time of early summer 1987!  People
who live in glass houses ...
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"