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From: eeproks@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Watch those flames...
Message-ID: <3825@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 22:09:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: pyr.3825
Posted: Sat Jul 18 22:09:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 04:38:13 EDT
References: <1467@tekchips.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: eeproks@pyr.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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In article <1467@tekchips.TEK.COM> jans@tekchips.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
<grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley) writes, quotes:
<>In <10192@amdahl.amdahl.com> chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) writes:
<><>In article <4399@nsc.nsc.com> roger@nsc.nsc.com (Roger Thompson) writes:
<><>When IBM was out searching for a micro, our CPU was stable... 
<><I seem to recall a LONG LONG road from the Rev E 16032 (that could almost
<><keep a Un*x kernel running) to a Rev R (that is almost bug free)... 
<>Landon, I guess we all know by now that you're not too fond of NSC...
<
<I think either Landon has too much time on his hands, or he's just a 
<National-baiter.  Why else would someone spend valuable working hours reading a 
<newsgroup devoted to a processor they hate?
<
<It would be nice to see some serious discussion for a change.

I resent this!

If there was a problem with earlier revs of the 16032, then why should this
not be pointed out?  Is this group only around to toot NS's horn, or is it
a forum for a technical discussion of the chips, for good and bad.  Is it a
heresy to dare speak ill of a National chip?

No chip is perfect, many are far from it, and it is perfectly legitimate to
point out deficiences.  

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